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Concrete Menageries: why were zoos drawn to modernist design?

 

23rd November 2024
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The Concrete Menagerie: Tecton at Dudley Zoo

4th August 2024
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Is Modernism Antiquated?

5th January 2024
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Lingotto the fiat factory Italy

The Fiat car company and its founders the Agnelli family are the perfect medium to understand the development of Italian politics, industry and design in the 20th Century. 

30th June 2021
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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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Prague, Löbau and back again; Greyscape on the Road

24th July 2023
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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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carlo scarpa architect

Negozio Olivetti by Carlo Scarpa: Adriano Olivetti a man with a vision who worked to ensure that it was hardwired into his company.

 

26th March 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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