A style of modern architecture that emerged in Europe (principally Germany and France) in the 1920s and 1930s. Historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architect Philip Johnson coined the term International Style to describe this plain, unadorned architecture of rectilinear forms built of steel, reinforced concrete, and glass. The style transformed the skylines of many major cities around the world.
Works
8 works online
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Concrete Country House Project (Perspective) 1923
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Les Terrasses, Villa Stein-de-Monzie, Garches, France 1926–1928 (model 1970)
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Tugendhat House, Brno, Czechoslovakia (Model of final version) 1928-1930
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Swiss Pavilion, Cité Universitaire, Paris, France 1930-32
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Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret), Pierre Jeanneret Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France 1932
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Philip L. Goodwin, Edward Durell Stone The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York 1939
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United Nations Headquarters Board of Design, Wallace K. Harrison, Max Abramovitz, Oscar Niemeyer, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) Façade from the United Nations Secretariat Building, New York, New York 1950
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Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Gordon Bunshaft, Natalie Griffin de Blois Lever House, New York, New York 1950–1952
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