In her new book, “Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s,” author Marilyn F. Friedman chronicles the saga of how Americans came to embrace modernism and make it their own, especially in cities like New York.
MoreOnkel Toms Hütte, a colorful 1920s housing development in Berlin, embodies a strand of Modernism long overshadowed by more minimalist, monochrome development.
MoreA video look inside a little-known Philip Johnson house in Manhattan: a two-story guesthouse designed for Blanchette Ferry Hooker Rockefeller in Turtle Bay.
MoreAbandoned beachfront resort north of Taipei, Taiwan features rare and fascinating examples of Finnish futurist architecture.
MoreHollywood’s Cinerama Dome.
Modernism isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when we think of Los Angeles. But that image might change with the launch of the Los Angeles Conservancy’s new website, which will spotlight historic places in a city often known more for its highways and ritzy suburbs than its …
MoreOne of LAX airport’s iconic buildings is the Modernist LAX Theme Building. If you have a layover, we recommend stopping by Encounters for a meal or drink.
MoreRobert Mallet Stevens was one of the great early 20th century architects, and yet some who walk past the street named after him to visit the Fondation Le Corbusier don’t know his name.
MoreThe Cinerama Dome, Capitol Records Building and the Neutral VDL Research House
MoreForgotten Modernism is a wonderful illustrated series about SF’s forgotten, yet important architectural legacy
MoreAn architectural history of Tel Aviv. We look at its development from sand dunes, to Bauhaus, to skyscrapers.
MoreIn a reaction against the functionality and uniformity of Modernist public housing in the suburbs of Paris, a group of architects explored a return to classical ornamentation and design leading to an unexpected aura of science fiction meets housing project.
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