Modern architecture

Unusual Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian home… part of the National Trust and so much carved wood!

This unusual Usonian home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939 was developed as a way to provide affordable housing for people of moderate means. Sounds like a familiar dilemma,...
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What will houses be like in 20 years… predictions from 6 homebuilders

Six visionary homebuilders gave Architectural Digest their predictions for what new houses will look like 20 years from now. Although their ideas vary depending on region and clientele, they share...
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Weisman Art Museum… and the shoe tree

The Weisman Art Museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the Twin Cities. Hugging the east bank of the Mississippi River, the distinctive Frank Gehry design...
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Love modern architecture? 3 reasons you should be a member of Docomomo US/MN

1. “Before there was Mad Men, Design Within Reach, or Dwell there was Docomomo“… an international non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of...
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Trend Alert… noticing a rise in INDOOR brick flooring

Photograph by Agnes Sanvito, from Kitchen of the Week: An Architect’s Labor-of-Love Kitchen, Art Gallery Included. In keeping with the theme of Earth Day which was this week, an article...
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Stunning MCM house by Henry Hoover, pioneer of New England modernist architecture

from Mid-Century Home – Henry Hoover’s Germeshausen house in Weston, MA Modernism Week in Palm Springs wraps up this weekend, and although we aren’t there this year I keep getting...
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Marcel Breuer’s St John’s Abbey Church… perhaps the most important piece of modern religious architecture in the US

We first visited Saint John’s Abbey Church about 50 years ago, when my husband was an architecture student and we were living in Fargo, ND. The church was completed in...
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Iconic Fickett and Eichler mid-century modern homes filled with natural light

When I think of the mid-century modern home style, the first thing I think of is light… and bringing the outside in, blurring the lines between exterior and interior spaces....
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