Architectural Styles
Functionalism
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1914-1930s
- Geometric forms
- minimal ornamentation
- functional
- concrete
- glass
- steel,
- open floor plans
- harmony with the landscape
- Czechoslavakia
- Germany
- Poland
- USSR
- Netherlands
- Scandinavia
- Finland
- North America
- global influence
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Residential homes
- apartments
- office buildings
- retail
- public buildings
- industrial
- Villa Savoye Poissy
- Farnsworth House Illinois,
- Bauhaus Dessau
- Kenzō Tange’s Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Hiroshima
- Pruitt-Igoe Housing Project St Louis
- United Nations Headquarters NYC
- Villa Tugendhat Czech Republic
- Zlín, factory city
- Brno Crematorium
- Nordic funkis
- Vilhelm Lauritzen Airport Terminal, Copenhagen
- Aarhus University
- Aarhus City Hall
- Bellavista Klampenborg
- The Standard Copenhagen
- Former custom house
- Knippelsbro bridge Copenhagen
- Paimio Sanatorium
- Helsinki Olympic Stadium
- Hotel Vaakuna Helsinki
- Viipuri Library Vyborg
- Social Insurance Institution Gdynia Poland
- Södra Ängby Sweden
- Zlin Czech Republic
- Baťa’s Skyscraper Czechia
- Hotel Hollywood Surry Hills
- Knarrarós Lighthouse Iceland;
Efficiency, hygiene, light, and standardisation directly reshape how people stay overnight
- Purpose-Built Functionalist Hotels
- Residential Hotels & Long-Stay Accommodation
- Serviced Apartments in Functionalist Housing
- Transport-Oriented Hotels
- Functionalist Resort Hotels & Sanatoria
- Hostels, Dormitories & Educational Lodging
- Exhibition, Congress & Civic Hotels
- motels
- B&B
- Hotel Avion – ultra-compact Functionalist hotel (1928)
- Hotel Nord-Sud
- Functionalist residential hotels in Stockholm, Zurich, Vienna
- Weissenhof Estate
- Paimio Sanatorium
- Functionalist seaside hotels in Tel Aviv, Rimini, Viareggio
- University guesthouses in Scandinavia
- Hotels linked to 1930s world fairs
- Functionalist hotels in Brussels, Paris, Stockholm
Adaptive Reuse
- Early serviced-apartment models derived from modernist housing
- Functionalist housing in Helsinki, Prague, Berlin used for short stays
Landmarks
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
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