Modernism architecture in United States
Discover 134 places in United States shaped by Modernism architecture, with photos, the architects behind them, and where to find each one.
Modernism strips away ornament and lets function shape the building in glass, steel, and concrete. It broke through in the 1920s and dominated construction after World War II. More about modernism
Modernism in United States
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1959 · Frank Lloyd Wright
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United Nations Headquarters
1952 · Wallace Harrison
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Marin County Civic Center
1962 · Frank Lloyd Wright
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Fallingwater
1937 · Frank Lloyd Wright
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Baker House
1949 · Alvar Aalto
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860-880 North Lake Shore Drive
1951 · Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
1996 · Josef Paul Kleihues
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Richard J. Daley Center
1965 · Jacques Brownson
- Federal Center Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Madison Square Garden
- Museum of Modern Art Philip L. Goodwin
- Aon Center Edward Durell Stone
- Rothko Chapel Philip Johnson
- Museum of Fine Arts, Cullinan Hall and Brown Pavilion Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Astrodome Hermon Lloyd & W.B. Morgan
- Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center I.M. Pei
- Kalita Humphreys Theater Frank Lloyd Wright
- Fountain Place Henry N. Cobb
- Fort Worth Water Gardens Philip Johnson
- Amon Carter Museum of American Art Philip Johnson
- Twin Palms E. Stewart Williams
- Tramway Gas Station Albert Frey
- Palm Springs City Hall John Porter Clark
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- Colonial
- Prairie School
- Neo-Renaissance
- Deconstructivism
- Federal
- Greek Revival
- Minimalism
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- High-Tech
- Vernacular
- Moorish Revival
- Chicago School
- Italianate
- Streamline Moderne
- Queen Anne
- Mayan Revival
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