In 1951, Richard Neutra, the mid-century architect who virtually embodied the California Dream in his sleek, low-slung homes, built an unlikely house in Sioux City, Iowa.
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UNESCO Adds 17 Le Corbusier Buildings to World Heritage List
UNESCO announced Sunday that 17 of Le Corbusier’s 20th-century buildings will be added to its World Heritage List.
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A Visual Homage to Brutalist Behemoths
Even while major Brutalist structures face preservation issues — like Marcel Breuer’s Central Library in Atlanta, whose fate is being decided now — the aesthetic of these concrete-based buildings continues to gain in popularity.
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Yale’s Center for British Art Reopens Its Historic Louis Kahn Building
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — At last week’s reopening of the Yale Center for British Art, Matthew Hargraves, chief curator of art collections, called its Long Gallery “one of the great undiscovered spaces of the 20th century.”
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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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Kaleidoscopic Interior by Pritzker Prize–Winning Architect Faces Demolition in NYC
Since opening in 1976, 1 United Nations Plaza has been an experience like tumbling into a hall of mirrors.
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Getty Foundation Announces New Grants to Conserve Modern Architecture
This week, the first awardees in the new Keeping It Modern grant initiative from the Getty Foundation were announced for 20th-century modernist architecture that requires long-term conservation planning.