Post-war Buildings Design, English Modernist Architecture Photos, Modern Houses in England Images
Post-war Buildings: Architecture
Modernist Architecture – 20th Century Built Environment + The International Style
post updated 28 March 2024
What’s the best post-war building?
There are about half a million listed buildings in England – but only a tiny fraction were built since 1945. Normally, a building has to be 30 years old to be considered for listing and it was actually 1987 before the first post-war building gained protection, reports the BBC.
High & Over by Connell and Thomson:
photo : Morley von Sternberg
Post-war Architecture
From large public buildings to sprawling private homes of concrete and glass, English Heritage is celebrating post-war era architecture with its exhibition Brutal and Beautiful: Saving the 20th Century. Take a look at some of the striking images featured, with curator Elain Harwood.
Post-war Buildings film – link
Brutal and Beautiful: Saving the 20th Century is open until 24 November 2013 at Wellington Arch in central London.
e-architect have some classic Modern Buildings online, such as Mies van der Rohe’s Tugendhat Villa & Barcelona Pavilion, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, housing by Berthold Lubetkin and Le Corbusier’s Ville Savoie.
Another UK Post-war Buildings film link:
Coming to Terms with Modern Times: English architecture in the post-war era – Simon Thurley:
Film on YouTube
Published on 5 Apr 2013
The Second World War intensified and magnified debates that had been current amongst architects since 1914. It also marks a fault line in English architectural history. Architects, supported by politicians, decisively moved away from tradition and sought to create a new language of architecture. Some loved it, but unfortunately the public grew to hate it.
Another UK Post-war Architecture film link:
Brutal & Beautiful: What is Brutalism?
Published on 25 Nov 2013
The Brutal and Beautiful exhibition takes its name from the term “New Brutalism,” a style coined by English architects Alison and Peter Smithson in 1953, “their phrase stood not for chunky concrete but for the use of natural materials honestly expressed, as was first seen in Derek Sugden’s house in Watford.” This short film also features the Grade *II listed Balfron Tower in London, designed by Ernő Goldfinger.
Modern Architecture – Major Modernist Buildings
Most of these Modern buildings exude purity – simple forms, floating planes / cantilevers, white facades, strip windows – typical of Modernist Architecture.
These Modern buildings feature in standard Histories of Architecture Books, alphabetical:
Barcelona Pavilion, Spain
1929; reconstructed 1983-86
Design: Mies van der Rohe Architect
photograph © Adrian Welch
Barcelona Pavilion – probably the most famous Modern building in the world
Farnsworth House, Illinois, USA
1950
Design: Mies van der Rohe Architect
photo © gm+ad architects
Farnsworth House
Florida Southern Colleges – Child of the Sun, Florida, USA
1959
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright
photograph © Robin Hill
Child of the Sun Buildings
High & Over, Amersham, England
1931
Design: Connell and Thomson / Architect: Amyas Connell
photo : Morley von Sternberg
Modern English house – one of the first Modern houses in England
Highpoint I, Highgate, London, UK
1935
Design: Berthold Lubetkin Architect
photograph © Adrian Welch
Modernist Housing : Highpoint Buildings
Hilversum Town Hall, The Netherlands
1931
Design: Willem Marinus Dudok
photo © Adrian Welch
Hilversum Town Hall Building
860-880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, USA
1951
Design: Mies van der Rohe Architect
photo : William Zbaren
Lake Shore Drive Towers
Lawn Road Flats, London, UK
1934
Design: Wells Coates
photograph © Adrian Welch
Isokon : Modern British building – classic white Modernist purity
Martin House Complex, Buffalo, USA
1905
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
photograph : Biff Henrich / courtesy MHRC
Modern Building in Buffalo
This is an interesting residential complex designed by one of the most celebrated architects of the 20th Century, Frank Lloyd Wright. It is the largest of his Prairie houses in the Eastern United States.
Miller House, Indiana, USA
1953
Design: Eero Saarinen architect
photograph Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Miller House
Sanatorium Zonnestraal, Hilversum, The Netherlands
Design: Jan Duiker with Bernard Bijvoet and Jan Gerko Wiebenga
photo © Adrian Welch
Sanatorium Zonnestraal
This famous Modernist building appears in most histories of 20th Century Architecture and the Modern Movement.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1956
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright
picture : David M. Heald, © SRGF, New York
Guggenheim Museum New York – organic Modernist architecture
Tugendhat Villa, Brno, Czech Republic
1930
Design: Mies van der Rohe Architect
picture from architects
Modern Architecture : Tugendhat Villa Brno
Unité d’Habitation building, Berlin, Germany
1959
Design: Le Corbusier Architect
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Modern Berlin Housing – Modernist design emanating from France
Villa Savoie, Poissy, France
1929
Design: Le Corbusier Architect
building image © Rebecca Breun
Villa Savoie by Le Corbusier – famous Modernist architecture
More Modern Architecture online soon
Modern Architecture Funding – Getty Foundation Keeping it Modern – 29 Jul 2016
Location: UK
Post-war Building Designs & Architects
Le Corbusier Show : The Interior of the Cabanon
interior photo : Andrea Ferrari
Modern Architecture Exhibition : RIBA, London
American Le Corbusier building: UN Building New York
Modern Architecture House : Frank Lloyd Wright house
photograph © Adrian Welch
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