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1929 was a landmark year in architectural modernism, coinciding with the completion of iconic works including the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe and the Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier. The year encapsulates the high moment of the Modern Movement, when modernism asserted its radical vision for architecture, urbanism, and the relationship between building and daily life.
Few residential projects in the history of architecture have so concisely synthesized the aspirations of the modernist movement as the Lovell House. Designed by Richard Neutra and constructed between 1927…
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Situated on Krivoarbatsky Lane in Moscow, the Melnikov House is a solitary icon of personal vision within the collectivist backdrop of early Soviet architecture. Designed and built between 1927 and…
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Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion is a seminal piece in the canon of modernist architecture. Commissioned by the German government for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, the Pavilion…
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