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Hans Scharoun designed a house in 1930 for Fritz Schminke, who was the owner of a noodles factory in Loebau, Saxony, Germany. The client wished for “… a modern house…
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Casa Malaparte, also known as Villa Malaparte, is a house conceived around 1937 by the well-known Italian architect Adalberto Libera on Punta Massullo, the eastern side of the isle Capri,…
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In the district of Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, the Alvar Alto House was the building where the famous architect developed most of his life and career. Alvar and Aino Aalto designed the…
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Completed in 1938 by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is as relevant as ever. In 1935, the Kaufmann family commissioned the architect to design a summer home. The house…
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In 1938, at the behest of Mussolini’s fascist government, Giuseppe Terragni and Pietro Lingeri designed the Danteum, an unbuilt monument dedicated to the famed 14th-century Italian writer Dante Alighieri structured…
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Completed in 1931 by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Poissy, The Villa Savoye is one of the most significant contributions to modern architecture in the 20th century and an…
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In 1938 Walter Gropius completed the residence for his family in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The house was his first architectural commission in the United States when he came to teach at…
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In 1934, Berthold Lubetkin and the Tecton Group completed the Penguin Pool in the world’s oldest zoo: the London Zoo. The complex also features a unique collection of buildings that…
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Completed in 1933, the Paimio Sanatorium is a former tuberculosis sanatorium designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The project has been canonized as an internationally recognized masterpiece of modern architecture,…
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Completed in 1936 on the border between Nevada and Arizona, the Hoover Dam is the second-highest dam in the United States and the 18th highest in the world. It was a monumental…
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Taliesin West was architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home and school in the desert of Arizona from 1937 until 1959. Today it is the main campus of The School of…
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