Images and enthusiastic student's description of Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre, Paris, France (1932), a landmark of the International Style.
The Modern Committee is a Los Angeles-based volunteer group formed in response to the rapid destruction of post-WWII buildings. Includes listings of endangered and destroyed Modern buildings in southern California.
Chip Chapin's photographs and history of the complex built l928-31 for Farben to the Bauhaus design of Hans Poelzig. Now part of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
A history of modernist residential architecture in Australia's capital. House profiles, architect biographies, essays on styles and a history of Canberra.
An illustrated history by Greg Flores of the new art school formed in Post World War One Germany, with bibliography.
A study by E.T. Dankwa of the 1930s Modernist architecture in the then-Finnish city of Viipuri, featuring works like Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Municipal Library.
The architects, architecture and theory of an avantgarde architectural movement. Italian with English translations beneath.
This plea for the preservation of a landmark of the Modern Movement in France, designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1932, includes a history and photographs.
Non-profit organization devoted to the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement. Includes aims, activities, publications and conferences.
A description of the development and characteristics of the International Modern style of the twentieth century.
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