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Art Deco statues sculpted by Luis Perlotti as part of the gate at the Municipal Cemetery in Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The gate itself was designed by Viktor Sulčič and erected in 1928.

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Walter Gropius – Visionär des Bauhauses

1919 gründete Walter Gropius das Bauhaus mit einer radikalen Idee: Kunst, Handwerk und Architektur zu vereinen und Gestaltung neu zu denken. In Dessau fand diese Vision ihre architektonische Form – offen, funktional, bis heute prägend für die Moderne.

Mehr über Bauhaus, Orte und Ideen entdecken → bauhaus-experience.com/de/100-jahre-bauhaus-dessau

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Rehabilitation center, by Jean-François Zevaco (1953-1960).

Tit Mellil, Morocco.

© Roberto Conte (2022)

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Protestantse Kerk (1962-71) in Brussels, Belgium, by Piet Dingemans

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Administration of the Kagawa Prefecture (1956-58) in Takamatsu, Japan, by Kenzo Tange, Takashi Asada, Koji Kamiya & Taneo Oki

[dystopianscifiarchitecture]

Halles universitaires - UCL university, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium, 1976, Y Iepere, J Polet

Pictures by Klaas Vermaas

#architecturephotography #brutalism #dystopianscifiarchitecture

[keepingitneutral]

Villa Omah Prana, Payangan, Bali,

Courtesy: Alexis Dornier

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[formlab]

Wiggle Chair, Frank Gehry 

[muzantropic]

Boiler House. Dornach, Switzerland

Architect: Rudolf Steiner, 1914

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Le Corbusier, Unité d’Habitation de Marseille

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

The best modern architecture as practiced in the United States was, at its heart, optimistic. And I feel the loss of that optimism acutely in what we’re building today.

Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal said, “let’s fly away, it’s grand to live like the gods, if only for a few hours.” Today we place external shutters over our building windows, a silent hectoring lecture about energy consumption and climate change that must be endured by anyone unfortunate enough to be passing by.

That spirit, that big balls optimism still exists in our nation. It’s expressed by the tip of a pencil on paper, not as a child’s CAD fantasy,certainly not as a surrender to the dictate of the minor gods of apology and mediocrity . Right now it’s dying in committee.

President Trump’s order for federal buildings that uplift and inspire sounds laudable, but remember that he’s a gold plated outer borough vulgarian at heart. Frank Lloyd Trump he ain’t.

Where is our Saarinen?

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Church "Heilig Blut" (1965) in Dinslaken, Germany, by Heinz Buchmann. Demolished in 2009.

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The November Revolution Monument (1926) at Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery in Berlin, Germany, by Mies van der Rohe. Destroyed by the Nazis in 1935.

[bauhaus-movement]

Professor Wassily Kandinsky ID card at the Bauhaus Dessau is a quiet reminder of how the masters shaped modern art.

Learn more about Bauhaus Group Journeys • https://www.bauhaus-experience.com/bauhaus-group-travel/

[modernism-in-metroland]

Rainbow Room, Derry and Toms Department Store

1933

Bernard George

Image from English Heritage

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Le Corbusier

Philips Pavilion, Brussels, Belgium, 1958 (Demolished in 1959)

Photo: Herbert F. Behrens / Anefo (Source)

"I won't make you a pavilion with facades. I'll make you an electronic poem and the bottle that will contain it." ― Le Corbusier