Modern Architecture Building Design
Explore modern architecture by Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, from Villa Savoye and Ronchamp to the Bauhaus building in Dessau.
Le Corbusier L'Unite d'habitation, Marseilles
Le Corbusier Nantes Reze Pilotis
Le Corbusier Nantes Reze Reliefs
Le Corbusier Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp
Le Corbusier Villa Savoye, Poissy
Le Corbusier Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Le Corbusier Youth and Cultural Center, Firminy
Bauhaus Building, Dessau
Walter Gropius’s 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau brings steel, glass, concrete, color and workshop-made furnishings into a modern school.
Barcelona Pavilion
Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich composed the Barcelona Pavilion from glass, polished stone and slender steel columns for the 1929 exposition.
Seagram Building, New York
The Seagram Building pairs a bronze-and-glass office tower with an open Park Avenue plaza, establishing an influential model of corporate modernism.
Salk Institute, La Jolla
Louis Kahn arranged adaptable laboratories and quiet study towers around a travertine courtyard facing the Pacific at the Salk Institute.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Frank Lloyd Wright made a continuous spiral ramp and a skylit rotunda the central experience of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Finlandia Hall, Helsinki
Finlandia Hall combines white marble, dark granite and carefully furnished public interiors beside Helsinki’s Töölö Bay.
Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House turns concrete roof shells into a harbor landmark, shaped by Jørn Utzon’s design and a demanding process of construction.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Le Corbusier’s National Museum of Western Art links a concrete gallery building, a sculptural forecourt and an evolving museum collection in Ueno Park.
TWA Flight Center, New York
Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center uses curving concrete shells and flowing interior spaces to give architectural form to the experience of flight.