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Is Modernism Antiquated?

5th January 2024

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Eileen Gray's villa E-1027 at Cap Moderne, Roquebrune, France

Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027

Look at the near-forgotten architect who aroused Le Corbusier’s envy

4th July 2018

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Roof Terrace of the German Hospital Bruno Court Dalston London

The 1936 Modernist wing of the German Hospital in Hackney

A story of the best and the worst of the 20th Century

28th December 2018

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Pruitt-Igoe blown up 13 March 1972

Modernism Was Framed: The Truth About Pruitt-Igoe

28th October 2020

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bucharest architecture

Exposing the real and raw face of Bucharest

8th October 2021

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Marlene Poelzig Haus

Haus Marlene Poelzig: Why erasing women from architecture history is such a bad idea

3rd September 2021

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Berthold Lubetkin Bevin Court above buried Lenin bust

Very nearly called Lenin Court, Lubetkin’s Modernist Icon Bevin Court in the ‘Socialist Republic of Finsbury’

17th March 2019

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concrete roof brutalist architecture in Canberra

From a Spoiled Sheep Station to a Modern Marvel: Modernism in Australia’s National Capital

14th August 2020

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picasso mural behind scaffolding

Oslo’s most important International Modernist building ultimately disappeared before our eyes

30th July 2020

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While at the turn of the 20th century the Austrian

While at the turn of the 20th century the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, ruled from Vienna, may have seemed invincible and unchangeable, deep currents of change were running in philosophy, literature, the visual arts, sciences and threatening the political status quo. The nationalist aspirations of many of the peoples subject to the empire, Hungarian, Serbs, Jews and others; slow economic improvement and industrialisation was a rich mulch for the growth of revolutionary and social democratic politics. Out of this increasingly febrile atmosphere of new ideas, Viennese modernism, the Wiener Moderne, emerged as a distinct counterpoint and avant-garde response to the sclerotic empire. In architecture a pivotal figure in the Vienna Secession was Adolf Loos who brought to Vienna much of what he experienced in the United States.

Let’s mention two titans who share a first name, Josef Hoffman and Josef Frank. They were extraordinarily gifted modernists, both were controversial within their own lifetimes although Hoffman didn’t do enough to distance himself from the darkness that swallowed up art and design, politics and peace after the 1938 Anschluss.

Reel features Wiener Werkstätte wallpaper 1905, vase in wooden frame, 1900, Josef Hoffman. Painting ‘Young woman with Feather Hat’, Max Pechstein 1910. Painting ‘The Chessmatch’ 1925-30 Max Oppenheimer

Casablanca born architect Jean-Francois Zevaco’s

Casablanca born architect Jean-Francois Zevaco’s Centre d’Observation et de Réeducation (1960). Photo with thanks to @ilcontephotography

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