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[javal]

JFK’s TWA Flight Center (turned hotel) - Eero Saarinen 1962

[deestijl]

ValentineSchlegel

[deestijl]

VALENTINE SCHLEGEL

[kecobe]

Nature morte = Still Life Fernand Léger (French; 1881–1955) 1927 Oil on canvas Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway © Léger, Fernand/BONO

[vian-cloe-blog]

 Christian Verhelst      

[javal]

JFK’s TWA Flight Center (turned hotel) - Eero Saarinen 1962

[javal]

Evans house, Beverly Hills CA

William Beckett 1952

Photo by Julius Schulman

(Insta repost dc_hillier)

[archiveofaffinities]

Advertisements for Architecture 0192

[javal]

Wm F. Hempel

[nexttoparchitects]

Eduardo Chillida_Tindaya Mountain project .1994 via @_c_a_g_e_ https://teespring.com/stores/next-top-architects #next_top_architects snapchat #nextarch

[fuckyeahbrutalism]

Zendo-ji Temple of Shunan-zan, Itoigawa, Niigate Prefecture, Japan, 1962

(Yoji Watanabe)

[germanpostwarmodern]

Interior of the former Wallraf Richartz Museum (1950-58) in Cologne, Germany, by Rudolf Schwarz & Josef Bernard

[germanpostwarmodern]

Housing Estate “Im Lee” (1963-70) in Arlesheim, Switzerland, by Hermann Baur

[fuckyeahbrutalism]

Miyazu City Hall, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, 1962

(Design League)

[archatlas]

Ornament is Crime 

“Absence of ornament has brought the other arts to unsuspected heights,” Austrian architect and theorist Adolf Loos said in a seminal 1910 lecture titled “Ornament and Crime.” Coming out against the Art Nouveau movement, Loos called for “the elimination of ornament from useful objects” and hailed “smooth and precious surfaces” in the name of cultural progress.

This sentiment is the guiding principle of Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture, a new book that celebrates modernist architecture from its origins in the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, written by Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill.

[setdeco]

MIES VAN DER ROHE, Farnsworth House, Plano Illinois, USA, 1945-1951

[setdeco]

SUPERSTUDIO, The Continuous Monument, An Architectural Model for total Urbanisation, Archivio Superstudio, Firenze Italy, 1969