Architectural Styles
Modernism
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
1920s-1960s
- Functionality
- open floor plans
- steel, glass, and concrete
- flat roofs
- uncluttered lines,
- geometric shapes
- integrate indoor and outdoor
- Minimal Ornamentation
- Global
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Office skyscrapers
- single-family homes
- Museums
- galleries
- theaters
- Villa Savoye
- Farnsworth House Illinois
- Seagram Building NYC
- Gropius House Massachusetts
- Villa La Roche-Jeanneret Paris;
- Corbusier Haus Stuttgart
- Villa Paul Poiret
- Hôtel Martel rue Mallet-Stevens
- Bauhaus Dessau
- Barcelona Pavilion
- International Congresses of Modern Architects (CIAM)
- Fallingwater
- Lovell Beach House Newport
- ovell Health House LA
- Schindler-Chase House Hollywood
- Pavilion of the Second Spanish Republic
- 1939 World’s Fair
- Unité d’Habitation
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Arthur Milam House
- Stillman House Litchfield
- S. R. Crown Hall Illinois
- Eames House Pacific Palisades,
- Lever House
- UN HQ NYC
- Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center
- General Motors Technical Center
- Ingalls Rink in New Haven
- TWA Terminal at JFK Airport NY
- Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth
- Pyramid of the Louvre Museum in Paris
- Pirelli Tower in Milan
- Fondation Maeght
- MAM Rio museum
- Cathedral of Brasília
- Tour de la nation, Tunis.
- International Style Urban Hotels
- Modernist Resort Hotels
- Functionalist Business & Conference Hotels
- Modernist Motor Hotels & Early Motels
- Modernist Adaptive-Reuse Hotels
- Socially Progressive / Prototype Hotels
- Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus (SOM, 1955)
- Hotel InterContinental Frankfurt
- Hotel Nacional de Cuba (modernist expansions)
- Hotel Valley Ho
- Hyatt Regency Atlanta
- Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers
- Desert Inn
- The Caliente Tropics
- Intourist Hotel Moscow (Soviet modernism)
- Hotel Ukraina (modernist–monumental crossover)
- Marina City Hotel (Marina City Complex, Chicago 1964 modernist megastructure;
- Barbican Estate — modernist complex
Adaptive Reuse
- The InterContinental Wien
- The Line DC — 1960s modernist church & institutional complex
- Hotel Katajanokka — modernist prison complex (1950s)
- The Liberty Hotel — modernist-era carceral infrastructure
- Hotel Bauen — 1950s modernist trade-union building
- Hotel Fuerst Metternich — modernist commercial block
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