Architect Pietro Belluschi, one of Oregon’s most revered and awarded citizens, will be celebrated Sunday, Aug. 18, on the 125th anniversary of his birthday, at a place that’s fitting: the Portland Art ...
Ninety-two years ago, Pietro Belluschi was a young, unknown architect who conceived of an unadorned design for the Portland Art Museum. If constructed, the modern building would forever change the ...
Famed architect Marcel Breuer made his modernist mark on rural Litchfield County, Conn., in the mid-20th century.
The Aluminaire House drew crowds, and ridicule, in 1931. After several moves and a brush with demolition, it has found a home in Southern California. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Palm Springs, Calif.
Perched on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean, Villa E-1027 stands as one of the most singular creations of the 20th ...
The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...
Midcentury modern architect John Lee passed away in 2016 but left behind a suite of distinguished yet quiet homes in his wake in New Canaan, Connecticut. Some of these are part of the New Canaan Glass ...
Bowl, now known as Bowlero Christown, is a classic example of midcentury modern architecture in central Phoenix. The “Googie” ...
Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective ...
One of Finnish modern architect Alvar Aalto‘s famous designs is the Hand Grenade pendant light from 1952. Its sleek cylinder within a cylinder doesn’t look particularly like the explosive device, but ...