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Getty Pledges $3.1 Million For Preservation of Black Modern Architecture

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie September 20, 2022September 20, 2022

The funds will go toward a new initiative from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

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Richard Neutra’s Little-Known Modernist House on the Prairie

by Karen Emenhiser-Harris March 28, 2017March 27, 2017

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 18, 2016July 26, 2016

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 31, 2016May 31, 2016

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 18, 2016May 19, 2016

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 11, 2016May 11, 2016

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 20, 2016January 27, 2016

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

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 19, 2014September 21, 2014

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.

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