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When l'Unite d'habitation and its unprecedented forms became an integral part of the Marseilles landscape, the cycle of the 'town-planning revolution' w...
L'Unite d'habitation, Nantes Reze Pilotis - designed by Le Corbusier.
L'Unite d'habitation in Nantes Reze Reliefs - designed by Le Corbusier.
Le Corbusier did not lose his way, on the contrary, l'Unite at Marseilles strengthened his dogged faith in his own creed. He felt that here at last was...
The Villa Savoye seems to grow from the interior, almost as though reacting against any form of external 'front', thanks to a central force, which is al...
The Youth and Cultural Center in Firminy, France. Designed by Le Corbusier.
Exterior view of The Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Designed by Le Corbusier.
Walter Gropius’s 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau brings steel, glass, concrete, color and workshop-made furnishings into a modern school.
The Seagram Building pairs a bronze-and-glass office tower with an open Park Avenue plaza, establishing an influential model of corporate modernism.
Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich composed the Barcelona Pavilion from glass, polished stone and slender steel columns for the 1929 exposition.
Louis Kahn arranged adaptable laboratories and quiet study towers around a travertine courtyard facing the Pacific at the Salk Institute.
Finlandia Hall combines white marble, dark granite and carefully furnished public interiors beside Helsinki’s Töölö Bay.
Sydney Opera House turns concrete roof shells into a harbor landmark, shaped by Jørn Utzon’s design and a demanding process of construction.
Frank Lloyd Wright made a continuous spiral ramp and a skylit rotunda the central experience of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Le Corbusier’s National Museum of Western Art links a concrete gallery building, a sculptural forecourt and an evolving museum collection in Ueno Park.
Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center uses curving concrete shells and flowing interior spaces to give architectural form to the experience of flight.