Post–World War II, architects were confident that a better life could be built, that design could improve society through efficiency and community.
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Using a Retro View-Master to See Modernist Architecture in 3D
Since 1997, the Knoxville, Tennessee–based View Productions has created a series of reels highlighting 20th-century design and architecture, particularly forms that are difficult to capture in two dimensions.
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An Icon of Midcentury Organic Modern Architecture Is Destroyed
A spiraling 1955 house that was considered one of the icons of 20th-century organic modernism has been destroyed.
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The Forgotten Artistic Playgrounds of the 20th Century
No matter if your childhood playground had a rusted metal slide that was scorching hot in summer or a sleek and safe structure of soft plastic climbing walls and swings, it’s likely that you created your own narrative of play.
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Unbuilt Museums
Some museums just aren’t meant to be. For reasons of being too complicated, expensive, or just too out there to exist, many architects’ plans for museums have been unrealized.
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Midwestern Futurism: The Endangered Legacy of an Avant-garde Architect
“Architect Bruce Goff, one of the few US architects whom Frank Lloyd Wright considers creative, scorns houses that are ‘boxes with little holes’.” So starts a 1951 Life Magazine article on the Ford House in Aurora, Illinois, one of Goff’s many astounding and imaginative designs that are some of the most structurally forward-thinking of mid-century modern architecture.