Modern architecture design photos, Modernist houses pictures, 20th Century property images
Modern Architecture – 20th Century Design
Modernist Buildings & The International Style. 20C Built Environment News and Images.
post updated 22 January 2026
27 Mar 2021
Why We Love Modern Architecture
Stop Calling Everything Modern Architecture article posted
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.
Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate, London, by architect Neave Brown:
photo © Martin Charles / RIBA Collections
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Modernist Building Designs
Modernist Building Designs around the World
21 Aug 2012
Hilversum Town Hall, The Netherlands
Design: Willem Marinus Dudok
photo © Adrian Welch
Hilversum Town Hall – new photographs
21 Aug 2012
Sanatorium Zonnestraal, Hilversum, The Netherlands
Design: Jan Duiker with Bernard Bijvoet and Jan Gerko Wiebenga
photo © Adrian Welch
Sanatorium Zonnestraal – new photographs
New photographs of this famous Modernist building that appears in most histories of 20th Century Architecture and the Modern Movement.
The former Zonnestraal Sanatorium is one of the most famous modern monuments in the Netherlands.
Apr 20, 2012
Martin House Complex, Buffalo, New York, USA
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
photograph : Biff Henrich / courtesy MHRC
Modern Architecture in Buffalo
This is an interesting residential complex designed by one of the most celebrated architects of the 20th Century, Frank Lloyd Wright, between 1903 and 1905. It is the largest of his Prairie houses in the Eastern United States.
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Modern Architecture – Major Modernist Buildings
Most of these Modernist 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:
Barcelona Pavilion, Barcleona, Catalonia, Spain
Date built: 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
Date built: 1950
Design: Mies van der Rohe Architect
photo © gm+ad architects
Highpoint I, Highgate, London, England, UK
Date built: 1935
Design: Berthold Lubetkin Architect
photograph © Adrian Welch
Highpoint Buildings – British Modernist Housing
860-880 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date built: 1951
Design: Mies van der Rohe Architect
photo : William Zbaren
Lake Shore Drive Towers
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, USA
Date built: 1956
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright
photo : Tectonic Photo
Guggenheim Museum New York – organic Modernist architecture
Villa Savoie, Poissy, northern France
Date built: 1929
Design: Le Corbusier Architect
building image © Rebecca Breun
Villa Savoie by Le Corbusier – famous Modernist architecture.
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Modernism
Modern Architecture was a product of the mid-20th century. Described as the International Style by Reyner Banham, the Modern style was linked with architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies Van der Rohe and prevalent in Europe and USA initially.
Modern Architecture became the equivalent of the Classical Style in the Georgian period, ie the establishment architecture, the status quo.
Since the seventies architecture styles have become more fractured and we have – amongst what could be termed contemporary architects – post-modernists, neo-modernists, deconstructivists, contextualists, expressionists and so on. ‘Contemporary Architects’ suggests a position that is anti-vernacular, comfortable with new materials or non-local materials and forms, using architectural language that is not generally steeped in past typographies or traditions.
Please see our Modern houses page, linked on the left under ‘Relevant Links’
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Modernist Architecture – Recent Additions to e-architect
Houses of Sagaponac, Long Island, NY, USA
Bachman Wilson House, NJ
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright
photo from Brown Harris Stevens
Houses of Sagaponac
Miller House, Indiana, USA
Design: Eero Saarinen architect
photograph Courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Miller House
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Modern Architecture – Key Modernist Buildings
Lawn Road Flats, London, England, UK
Date built: 1934
Design: Wells Coates
photo © Robin Lambert
Isokon : Modern British building – classic white Modernist purity
Tugendhat Villa, Brno, Czech Republic
Date built: 1930
Design: Mies van der Rohe Architect
picture © AW
Modern Architecture : Tugendhat Villa Brno
Unité d’Habitation building, Berlin, Germany
Date built: 1959
Design: Le Corbusier Architect
photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Modern Berlin housing – Modernist design emanating from France
Florida Southern Colleges – Child of the Sun, Florida, USA
Dates built: 1938-59
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright
photo © Robin Hill
Florida Southern Colleges Buildings
Central Beheer office, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Date built: 1972
Design: Herman Hertzberger
photos © Willem Diepraam
Classic, world-famous office design
photo © Aviodrome Luchtfotografie
V. C. Morris Gift Shop, San Francisco, California, USA
Date built: 1948
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright
photo from gallery
San Francisco Architecture – more photos
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Modern Buildings UK
Bata Shoe Factory building, Tilbury, east London
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Design: Vladimir Karfik
Gala Fairydean Stadium – photos added 7 May 2012, Scotland
Date built: 1965
Peter Womersley Architect
photo © AJW
This building is designed in a similar architecture style to Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. The raw shuttering of the concrete, the powerful angular forms and the focus on cantilever and buttresses in tension are dominant. The building was controversially listed by Historic Scotland in late 2006.
Labworth Café, Canvey Island
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Design: Christiani & Nielsen
Paddington Maintenance Depot, northwest London
Dates built: 1966-68
Design: Bicknell & Hamilton
Modernist railway building
Royal Corinthian Yacht Club Building
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Design: Joseph Emberton
Wood House, Shipbourne, Kent
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Design: Walter Gropius
More Modern Architecture online soon.
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Le Corbusier Show : The Interior of the Cabanon
interior photo : Andrea Ferrari
Le Corbusier Exhibition : RIBA, London
American Le Corbusier building – UN Building New York
Modern Architecture House : Frank Lloyd Wright house
photograph © Adrian Welch
Barcelona Pavilion Photos : world-famous Catalan building design by Mies van der Rohe architect
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Architecture Design
Contemporary Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Comments / photos for the Modern Architecture Designs page welcome.