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List of illustrations

  • Prototypical organic school plan
  • Salvisberg House, Zurich, garden front plus axonometric of reinforced concrete structure
  • Fenster aus Holz und Metall
  • Simpsons Store
  • League of Nations competition, details of fenestration
  • Tugendhat House, Brno, plan, section, and details of retractable glass windows
  • Chaise Longue LC4
  • Le Modulor
  • Small House Competition, plan exemplifying the “biorealist” approach
  • Oerlikon Velodrome, details
  • Hoffmann–La Roche pharmaceutical warehouse, general view of interior
  • Velodrome, details of reinforced concrete stadium plus plan and section of roof structure
  • Chapel of the Resurrection
  • Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete, axonometric
  • Hotel Xenia
  • Agios Dimitrios School, first floor plan and views of the exterior
  • Central Rail Terminus, Rome, model and transverse section
  • Central Rail Terminus
  • Manola Court
  • Monolith Home, Racine, Wisconsin, perspective
  • Pueblo Ribera Settlement, La Jolla, California, site plan
  • Pueblo Ribera Settlement, La Jolla, California, floor plans, elevations, and construction detail drawings
  • Lovell Beach House, Newport Beach, California, axonometric
  • Vacation house for C. H. Wolfe
  • Vacation house, Catalina Island, floor plans and section
  • Kings Road House, view of the garden and the Chace wing
  • Kings Road House, Los Angeles, ground floor plan and internal and external spatial enclosures
  • Rudolf Schindler's Studio
  • Kings Road House, Los Angeles, elevation, sections, and construction details
  • Kings Road House, Los Angeles, perspective drawing of the original design
  • Kings Road House, dining room with vertical glazed light slots
  • House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, satellite mirror designed for guest room
  • House of Madame Mathieu-Lévy, rue de Lota, Paris, view of the main salon with the Pirogue daybed
  • Petit Coiffeuse, small dressing table
  • Transat chair, detail drawings
  • Bibendum armchair
  • Badovici pied-à-terre on rue Chateaubriand, Paris, plan and sectional detail of the opening in the ceiling
  • Badovici pied-à-terre, partial view of suspended false ceiling
  • Badovici pied-à-terre, main space
  • Centre de Vacances, site model
  • Design for a cultural and social center, view of the arena in a model of the complex
  • House E1027, view of the west and south facades
  • L’Architecture Vivante, cover of issue dedicated to E1027
  • House E1027, view from the sea
  • House E1027, view from the bottom of the spiral staircase leading up to the roof
  • House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, diagrammatic plan
  • House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, drawings of the circular stair, first-floor entrance, plan of the upper floor and balcony
  • House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, detail of the folding window system in the living room
  • House E1027, view of the sitting room with the folding window in the open position and detail drawings of the folding operation
  • House E1027, view and detail drawings of the dining table with adjustable lamp
  • House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, axonometric
  • Rug design, Marine d'Abord
  • House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, living room with all the furniture
  • House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, south, east, and west elevations
  • House E1027, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, views of the bed niche, the bed in the guest room with the adjustable circular table, and the armchair
  • Zonnestraal Sanatorium, aerial view
  • Competition Design for the Chicago Tribune Building
  • Terrace housing in the Oldenbarneveltlaan area of The Hague, overall view and detail of a terrace
  • Villapark Meer en Bosch semi-detached houses, perspective, foundation plan, and a close-up of one of the wings
  • Country House, two views
  • Zonnestraal Sanatorium, view of the main structure and one of the ward pavilions under construction
  • Cineac Cinema, exterior and interior
  • Cineac Cinema, Amsterdam, plan of auditorium and street elevations
  • Gooiland Hotel and Theater, street façade
  • Open-Air School, view of the two wings and the central stair tower with outriding gymnasium
  • Chair designed for the Open-Air School, detail
  • Open-Air School, view of the interior of one of the classrooms
  • Open-Air School, Amsterdam, site plan, transverse section, and ground/typical floor plan
  • Open-Air School, view from the northeast showing the gymnasium
  • Open-Air School, Amsterdam, diagram of geometrical/structural order, plus bending diagrams
  • Children undergoing heliotherapy, Open School, Amsterdam
  • Table
  • Open-Air School, view of the corner terraces and the gymnasium
  • Hilversum Town Hall, view from the southeast
  • Municipal services building, Hilversum, elevation (unrealized)
  • Villa Sevensteyn, view of the northern front, along with the site plan
  • Dr. H. Bavinck School, view of the street
  • Dr. H. Bavinck School, Hilversum, north and west elevations
  • Fabritius School, general view of the complex plus section and elevations
  • Hilversum Town Hall, sections through the central courtyard
  • Erasmus House, apartment and office building
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, aerial view
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, floodlit at night
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, view of west side facing the Hogendorpsplein
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, Rotterdam, elevations, sections, and plans
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, Rotterdam, elevations, sections, and plans
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, view of the main entrance
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, view from the terrace
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, view of the main stair and restaurant
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, partial view of one of the terraces on the west side
  • Bijenkorf Department Store, view of the central atrium at the ground floor
  • Lenglet House, view from the study toward the double-height living room.
  • House for a Chemist, Uccle, near Brussels, north and south elevations
  • Worker's House, internal perspective of double-height living room
  • La Cité Moderne, Berchem-Sainte-Agathe
  • Lenglet House, plans of the two levels, section, and view of the south side
  • De Koninck House, plans of the main living level, the bedroom suite, and the architect’s office
  • De Koninck House, corner window
  • Tubular metal chair
  • Dining chair
  • Frankfurt Kitchen, elevation
  • Prefabricated Kitchen
  • CUBEX kitchen
  • Canneel House, garden view with two roof terraces above
  • Canneel House, Auderghem, site plan
  • De Koninck House, the corner window with the beginning of the stair to the architect’s office and master bedroom/bathroom suite
  • De Koninck House, architect's office
  • De Koninck House, Uccle, section showing the principle of rising hot air heat diffusion
  • Canneel House, Auderghem, plans of ground and first floors
  • Canneel House, main entrance, east facade
  • Canneel House, Auderghem, living room with tubular steel furniture
  • Canneel House, architect’s office as extension of living area; a flexible mobile partition wall separates the two spaces
  • Canneel House, flowerbeds on west-facing terrace seen through pivoting windows of living room
  • De 8 en Opbouw, issue dedicated to modern architecture in Belgium
  • Canneel House, main stairway lit by glass blocks
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, axonometric of the main bathroom
  • Le vertige, film still
  • View of the living room in Chareau’s apartment on the rue Nollet, Paris
  • Armchair and side chair
  • Golf clubhouse at Beauvallon, axonometric
  • Three-story ballroom in the Grand Hôtel
  • Grand Hôtel, view of the bar and the smoking room
  • View of the living room in Hélène Bernheim’s apartment, Paris
  • Lignes Télégraphiques et Téléphoniques office
  • House and studio for the painter Robert Motherwell, view from the living level toward the studio level
  • Maison de Verre, night view of the courtyard and entry façade
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, site plan
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, sections, front to back and left to right
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, axonometric
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, plans of ground, first, and second floors
  • Maison de Verre, view from the waiting room toward the medical examination room on the ground floor
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, axonometric of the main stairway in the double-height salon
  • Maison de Verre, detail of a steel-framed glass panel on the ground floor; interior of the glass façade with top-hung window
  • Maison de Verre, view of the open and closed pivoting screen, of glass and perforated zinc, at the threshold of the main stair
  • Maison de Verre, view of the double-height salon
  • Maison de Verre, partial view of the master bedroom
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, axonometric of the glass door to the garden and the security gate
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, detailed drawing of the stairway linking the doctor’s consulting room to his study above
  • Maison de Verre, Paris, plan and section of a retractable ladder linking Madame Dalsace’s boudoir to the master bedroom
  • Saint Peter’s Church
  • Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, plan
  • Malmö Eastern Cemetery, perspective showing ceremonial space
  • Boathouse, Djurgården, Stockholm, plan
  • Malmö City Theater, cross-sections and view of the auditorium
  • Skanstull subway station, Stockholm, view and detail drawing of the entrance turnstiles
  • Villa Edstrand, Falsterbo, perspective
  • Svenska Philips Office, Stockholm, meeting room with murals and furniture
  • Malmö Eastern Cemetery, Chapels of Saints Gertrude and Knut, plus front elevation of the Saint Gertrud chapel
  • Malmö Eastern Cemetery, Flower Kiosk, view of the southern façade
  • Social Security Administration Building, view of the spiral stairway
  • Design for a wall clock
  • Social Security Administration Building, Stockholm, longitudinal section and ground-floor plan
  • Social Security Administration Building, view of courtyard from above and initial study in a Nordic classical manner for Kyrkogata frontage
  • Social Security Administration Building, view of interior courtyard
  • Social Security Administration Building, view of the spiral staircase with steel-framed enclosure
  • Social Security Administration Building, interior of the managers’ offices
  • Fixed and swiveling chairs
  • Social Security Administration Building, view of the steel-framed enclosure of the service stairs and the corridor leading to the offices
  • Daily Express Building, view of the flush curtain walling with cornice and window-cleaning track above
  • Daily Express Building, Manchester, cross section
  • Empire Pool, exterior and interior views
  • Empire Pool, view of the concrete counterweights at the ends of the trusses
  • Pioneer Health Centre, St. Mary's Road, view of the pool, diving boards and glazed roof
  • Pioneer Health Centre, London, transverse section
  • Pioneer Health Centre, lounge and library with sliding-folding window-wall opening to the garden
  • Daily Express Building, Manchester, plan of the ground floor
  • Daily Express Building, view of the exterior
  • Sainsbury Warehouse, cross section and view from below showing window-cleaning track
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, partial view of the longitudinal facade, with the cornice window-cleaning track
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, cross section showing rail-loading areas
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, plan of the ground floor
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, view of the loading dock
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, construction details of the mushroom column structures and the curtain wall
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, cross section indicating the production process
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, drawing
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, views of the building under construction
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, Beeston, section through the cantilevered curtain wall
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, the glass roof over the packing hall
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, view of the central top-lit packing hall
  • Boots Pharmaceutical Plant, view of the central top-lit packing hall
  • Raymond House, courtyard garden and general view from the southeast
  • Raymond House, Reinanzaka, elevation, plan and sections
  • Raymond House, living room and fireplace as seen from above
  • Morinosuke Kawasaki House, Tokyo, plan and section with details of the living room furniture and corner fireplace
  • Hamao Sakuko House, view of the house from the garden
  • Raymond Summer Studio House, seen from the southeast
  • Kisuke Akaboshi House, view of the living room from above
  • Kikusaburô Fukui Villa, view of the bay from the Japanese bath
  • Kikusaburô Fukui Villa, Atami, plan and section of the Japanese bath
  • Raymond House and Studio, general view of wood-lined interior with free-standing chimney shaft
  • Raymond House and Studio, view of double-height living room with a boarded timber ramp to the first floor
  • Tokyo Golf Club, view of the trellis next to the swimming pool
  • Detail drawings of furniture designs
  • Tokyo Golf Club, view of the model
  • Tokyo Golf Club, view of the covered terrace facing south
  • Tokyo Golf Club, view of the interior of the men's restroom
  • Tokyo Golf Club, Asaka, elevations and first floor plan
  • Tokyo Golf Club, Asaka, main entrance hall and stair in plan and section, and a general view of the stairs rising to the first floor
  • Tokyo Golf Club, Asaka, plans and section of the reinforced-concrete spiral stair serving the external balconies
  • Tokyo Golf Club, Asaka, views of the lounge area on the first floor, including the women’s living room, and a partial view of the bar on the ground floor
  • De La Warr Pavilion, view of the main spiral staircase and suspended light fixture
  • Einstein Tower, Potsdam
  • Einstein Tower, Potsdam, longitudinal section and plans
  • Steinberg, Herrmann & Company hat factory, Luckenwalde, section of the dyeing shed
  • Red Flag Textile factory, Leningrad, view of the model
  • Berliner Tageblatt Building, elevation toward Schützenstrasse
  • Schocken Department Store, night view of the façade on Eberhardstrasse
  • Schocken Department Store, Stuttgart, typical floor plan and detail drawings of the corner circular stairway
  • Rudolf Mosse Press Pavilion for the Cologne Pressa Exhibition, lateral elevation and plan of the first floor
  • Universum Cinema, exterior
  • Universum Cinema, view of the theater auditorium
  • Mendelsohn House, Am Rupenhorn, view from the southeast and transverse section
  • Mendelsohn House, view of the music room and the terrace overlooking the Havel, along with the ground-floor plan
  • De La Warr Pavilion, view of the south façade facing the sea
  • De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, initial sketch
  • De La Warr Pavilion, view of the glazed stair hall and terrace facing the sea
  • De La Warr Pavilion, view from below of the main spiral stairway and close-up of the handrail of the southern stairwell
  • De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, southern elevation overlooking the sea and plans of the first and second floors
  • De La Warr Pavilion, the top of the spiral stairwell and its suspended light fitting, and the southern façade
  • De La Warr Pavilion, partial view of the glazed cantilevered staircase on the northern face overlooking the entrance
  • De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, exploded axonometric of the balconies facing the sea
  • Penguin Pool, London Zoo, detail view of the interlocking spiral ramps
  • Apartment building on the avenue de Versailles, Paris, standard floor plan and view of the main façade
  • Entry for the Palais des Soviets competition, plan of the first floor and model
  • Movable pavilion designed for the USSR trade delegation
  • Gorilla House, London Zoo, view of the outdoor cage with a rotating wall that may be closed in winter
  • Gorilla House, London Zoo, axonometric
  • Gorilla House, London Zoo, view of the building with the entrance porch in the foreground
  • Penguin Pool, London Zoo, plan
  • Highpoint Two, view of the entrance portico with its caryatids
  • Study for the garden design at Highpoint, London, with the residential blocks Highpoint One, at right, and Highpoint Two, at left
  • Peterlee New Town, plan of the city center
  • Finsbury Health Centre, bird's-eye view
  • Royal Festival Hall, Festival of Britain, diagrammatic perspectives
  • Highpoint One, aerial view
  • Highpoint One, London, plans of the entry level and a typical floor of two- and three-bedroom apartments
  • Highpoint One, London, plans of the two apartment types and a longitudinal section of the building
  • Highpoint One, view of the entrance hall
  • Highpoint One, London, view of the building under construction together with an axonometric of double-sided climbing formwork in timber
  • Highpoint One, view of the typical living room with sliding-folding windows fully open
  • Highpoint One, London, perspective of a typical foyer
  • Highpoint One, London, axonometrics
  • Highpoint One, view from the garden
  • Highpoint One, close-up of cantilevered balconies and the glass-block fenestration illuminatig the stair shaft
  • Highpoint One, London, detailed drawings of the bathrooms and steel fenestration (top) and of the steel-framed wardrobe fittings and steel flashing (bottom)
  • Sanatorium Machnáč, view of the roof terrace
  • Život II, cover and inside page
  • Villa Vančura, Prague, perspectives of the façade and bird’s-eye view
  • Villa Vančura, Prague, first- and second-floor plans
  • Olympic Building, Prague, building under construction
  • Competition design for the Jednota Building, Prague
  • Jednota Building, café-dance hall on the ground floor
  • Bata Building
  • Gibian Villa, views from the street
  • Gibian Villa, ground- and first-floor plans
  • Sanatorium Machnáč in Trenčianské Teplice, axonometric of competition project
  • Sanatorium Machnáč, view of balconies on the bedroom wing
  • Sanatorium Machnáč, ground floor and roof terrace plans and view from the north in 1986
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, the telescopic balcony of the crow's nest
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, model
  • Design for the Czechoslovak Pavilion design competition, Paris World Exhibition
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, views of the terrace overlooking USSR pavilion
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, night view of the pavilion illuminated from within
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, view of the crow's nest
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, ground- and first-floor plans of the second competition design
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, view of the pavilion under construction
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, view of the constructivist interior made up of a virtual plane of wire mesh penetrated by a standard steel spiral stair
  • Czechoslovak Pavilion, Paris World Exhibition, view of ferro-concrete cupola with glass lenses supported by a wide-span steel frame
  • Detail drawings of curved wooden chairs
  • Exhibition building in Charlottenberg
  • Lamps
  • Universal Lamp, sectional elevation
  • Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, perspective of the interior
  • Competition design for detached houses to be built of reinforced concrete commissioned by Dansk Cement Central, plan, elevations, and axonometrics of one of the proposals
  • Kastrup Airport terminal, as seen from the gate
  • Competition design for the Kharkov Theater, Ukraine
  • Kastrup Airport terminal, view of the interior of the new terminal
  • Danish Radio Headquarters, Copenhagen, competition design, elevation plus axonometric
  • Danish Radio Headquarters, longitudinal section of the auditorium and detailed section of the spotlighting system
  • Kastrup Airport Terminal, the undulating ceiling of the central atrium seen from the spiral staircase
  • Kastrup Airport, aerial view
  • Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, longitudinal and transverse sections of competition project, along with ground- and first-floor plans
  • Kastrup Airport Terminal, view of the double-height atrium of the departure hall
  • Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, atrium with the boarding gates in a perspective submitted for the competition
  • Kastrup Airport Terminal, view of atrium shortly after the terminal's completion
  • Kastrup Airport Terminal, view from the landing strip and a close-up inside the control tower
  • Kastrup Airport Terminal, view of the central atrium at the entrance from the second level
  • Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, axonometric of the double-height atrium from the competition design
  • Kastrup Airport Terminal, partial view of the entrance from the runway soon after the terminal's completion
  • Siedlung Neubühl, aerial view
  • Siedlung Neubühl, site plan showing relation to the city of Zurich
  • Siedlung Neubühl, view of the row houses from the east
  • Siedlung Neubühl, general plan and aerial view of eastern part of the complex
  • Siedlung Neubühl, Zurich, southeast elevation and plans for type A
  • Siedlung Neubühl, plan and view of the garden approach for type B
  • Siedlung Neubühl, view from living room onto the terrace in type B
  • Siedlung Neubühl, Zurich, details of fenestration for type B
  • Siedlung Neubühl, Zurich, section of the façade of type B
  • Siedlung Neubühl, partial view of the main façade of the type C terraced houses
  • Koellreuter House, Goldbacherstrasse, view from the south side
  • Goldbacherstrasse, southwest elevation; block plans of the two houses in the landscape
  • Koellreuter House, view of the first-floor terrace
  • Freibad Allenmoos, view from the men’s changing rooms onto the park, with the restaurant in the background
  • Freibad Allenmoos, Zurich, overall plan
  • Freibad Allenmoos, aerial view
  • Freibad Allenmoos, views of the entrance and the diving pool
  • Freibad Allenmoos, Zurich, cross section of the reinforced-concrete shell roof over the men’s changing rooms
  • Freibad Allenmoos, view of the interior of the changing facilities, with the cubicles on the left
  • Freibad Allenmoos, Zurich, elevations of the facilities
  • Freibad Allenmoos, Zurich, design model
  • Freibad Allenmoos, aerial view of the pool with the diving basin to the left
  • Freibad Allenmoos, the outdoor showers with foot-washing basins
  • Freibad Allenmoos, view of the restaurant's terraces from the southeast
  • Freibad Allenmoos, view of the women's changing area
  • Freibad Allenmoos, Zurich, restaurant ground-floor and roof-terrace plans with landscape
  • Søholm residential complex, seen from the street
  • House of the Future, axonometric
  • Rothenborg House
  • Bellevue residential complex, view of the houses from the coastal road
  • Stelling Building, street front and detail of the entrance
  • Stelling Building, Copenhagen, elevations and cross section
  • Texaco gas station, Copenhagen, bird's eye view
  • Theater-restaurant in the Bellevue complex
  • Sølholm, Jacobsen’s own house with double-height dining space and furniture by the architect
  • Ant chair
  • SAS Royal Hotel and Air Terminal, cross section and view of the main spiral staircase connecting the basement with the atrium and the second floor
  • Jespersen Office Building, the spiral staircase connecting the ground floor with the first floor
  • Munkegårds Elementary School, west elevation and aerial view of the school, composed of corridors, classrooms, and courtyards
  • Aarhus City Hall, southern facade
  • Aarhus City Hall, site plan
  • Aarhus City Hall, aerial view
  • Aarhus City Hall, principal elevation and plans of the first and second floors
  • Detail drawings of the wall and table lamps
  • Detail drawings of the wall and table lamps and door handles
  • Aarhus City Hall, partial view of the atrium of the main building
  • Aarhus City Hall, gallery that serves the offices in the main building
  • Aarhus City Hall, spiral stairway connecting the ground and first floors in the main building
  • Designs for a chair with armrests
  • Beckstrand House, Palos Verdes
  • Expansion of the headquarters of the Berliner Tagesblatt
  • Jewish Library, Jerusalem
  • Automobile Objective, Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland
  • Competition design for the League of Nations Building in Geneva
  • Lovell Health House, Griffith Park, interior view
  • Lovell Health House, Los Angeles, steel frame under construction
  • Lovell Health House, view from the southeast
  • Beard House, Altadena, California, cutaway axonometric
  • Miller House, Palm Springs, California, landscaping plan
  • Von Sternberg House, view of the driveway and perimeter fence enclosing an internal garden
  • Landfair Apartments, Los Angeles, axonometric
  • Emerson Junior High School, Westwood, California, interior perspective
  • Plywood Model Demonstration House, ground- and first-floor plans and axonometric
  • Nesbitt House, small guest residence
  • Elysian Park Heights, Los Angeles, bird's-eye perspective drawing
  • Kaufmann House
  • Kaufmann House, view from the hill looking est
  • Kaufmann House, Palm Springs, overall plan of the house and landscape with indication of sandstorm winds
  • Kaufmann House, view from northeast
  • Kaufmann House, view from northeast (top), and plan and general view of the gloriette
  • Kaufmann House, view of the guest wing
  • Kaufmann House, view from the living room, overlooking the swimming pool
  • Villiger House
  • Negerkunst: Prähistorische Felsbilder Südafrikas exhibition, Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum
  • Fifteen Variations on the Same Theme, Variation 15
  • Max Bill studio-house, Zurich, north elevation and lower ground-floor plan
  • Max Bill studio-house, view from the northwest
  • Max Bill studio-house, ground- and first-floor plans with a detailed section of prefabricated concrete cladding
  • Swiss Pavilion at the VI Triennale di Milano, cross section
  • Swiss Pavilion at the VI Triennale di Milano, view of the entrance
  • Pavilion for the city of Ulm
  • Monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner, design for a competition held by the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, site plan and perspective of the internal space
  • Konkrete Kunst exhibition, Basel, Kunsthalle, 18 March–16 April 1944
  • Form, A Balance Sheet of Mid-Twentieth-Century Trends in Design
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, aerial view
  • Pavilion for the Swiss National Exhibition of Lausanne
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, view of a corridor on the intermediate floor
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, site plan, longitudinal elevation, section, and elevation of the whole from the south
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, axonometric
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, initial sketch, bird's-eye view perspective
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, view of the coffee bar at the entry level
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, external view of the covered link to the student dormitories at grade
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, intermediate level plan of the administration and the library
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, workshop block plan and lecture hall
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, aerial view from the northwest
  • Hochschule für Gestaltung, interior view of a student dormitory unit
  • Gobierno Civil, view of the front façade
  • TABSA Aeronautical Plant, Barajas, north elevation and cross section
  • Gobierno Civil, Tarragona, front, back, and side elevations and ground-floor plan
  • Gobierno Civil, Tarragona, photo and detail of stairway handrail
  • Children’s home in Miraflores de la Sierra, general view and cross section
  • CENIM Research Center
  • Apartment building, view of the street façade and detail drawing of the bay window
  • Faculty of Science, University of Seville, view of the courtyard
  • CLESA Dairy Center, Madrid, section
  • Guzmán House, Algete, view of the porch
  • Municipal Sports Pavilion, Pontevedra, plan and section of roof structure
  • Design for vacation homes in Alcúdia, Majorca, street elevation, ground-floor plan, and perspective sketch
  • Maravillas School Gymnasium, view of the street façade
  • Maravillas School Gymnasium, Madrid, sectional sketch through the structure with cliff face to the left and cross section
  • Maravillas School Gymnasium, Madrid, detail drawing of the steel box section employed for the main truss and the supporting columns
  • Maravillas School Gymnasium, the interior of the gym with catenary truss beams and clerestory side lighting
  • Maravillas School Gymnasium, view of one of the auditorium-classrooms
  • Maravillas School Gymnasium, Madrid, detail drawing of the metal fence surrounding the playing field on the roof
  • Maravillas School Gymnasium, Madrid, axonometric of the skylights overhanging a classroom
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
In The International Style (1932), Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson advanced the thesis that modern architecture was a lightweight structure as removed from tradition as from other sociocultural considerations...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Born in Vienna in 1887 to a lower-middle-class family, Rudolf Schindler was educated at the Imperial Technical Institute, Vienna (1906–11), and at the Vienna Academy of Arts under Otto Wagner, the so-called Wagnerschule...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Kathleen Eileen Moray was born into an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family in Enniscorthy in southeastern Ireland in 1878...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Duiker was born in The Hague on 1 March 1890. He and his future partner, Bernard Bijvoet, were both educated at the Delft Technical College under the tutelage of Professor Henri Evers...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Born in Amsterdam in 1884, Dudok was educated at the Cadet School in Alkmaar and at the Royal Military Academy, Breda, from which he graduated in 1905...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
If there is a marginal but rigorous modernist who has been largely excluded from the synthetic histories of the interwar period, it is surely the Belgian architect Louis Herman De Koninck...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Pierre Chareau was born in Bordeaux in 1883 to a middle-class family. At the age of sixteen he went to Paris and entered the Paris branch of the British furniture firm of Waring & Gillow as a trainee draftsman...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Lewerentz was born in Bjartra, Sweden, where his father was the manager of the Sando Glassworks...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Born in London in 1890 of Welsh origin, Evan Owen Williams was a self-made man, not only because he obtained his engineering degree as a part-time evening student, but also because he became an architect-engineer hoping to bypass the traditional division of labor...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Born in 1888 in Kladno, Bohemia, to middle-class parents, Raymond began to study architecture at the Czech Polytechnic Institute in 1906, when the family moved to Prague...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Erich Mendelsohn was born in Allenstein, East Prussia, in 1887. In 1908, after a year studying law in Munich, he enrolled in the architecture department of the Technische Hochschule, Berlin...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1901, into an entrepreneurial Jewish family engaged in marketing scientific instruments, Lubetkin was educated in St. Petersburg and Moscow...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Founded in 1918 as a consequence of the First World War, Czechoslovakia, like Finland, was a new state in which modern architecture rose to the fore to become a symbol of the nation...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Born in Slagelse, Denmark, in 1894 and trained in the Royal Academy Copenhagen, from which he graduated in 1921, Lauritzen came to his professional maturity somewhat belatedly...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Werner Moser and Max Ernst Haefeli first worked together in 1930 on the design of the pioneering Siedlung Neubühl on the outskirts of Zurich (1932)...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Born in Copenhagen in 1902 to an assimilated Jewish family, Jacobsen was educated at Naerum Boarding School and at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Richard Josef Neutra was born in Vienna in 1892 into a secular Jewish family with close ties to Sigmund Freud’s family...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
If any figure of the post-1945 era inherited the mantle of El Lissitzky and László Moholy-Nagy, it was surely Max Bill, who began his artistic career at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich...
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Description: The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920–1970
Born in Pontevedra, Galicia, in 1913, Alejandro de la Sota studied mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela before moving to Republican Madrid in 1936, on the eve of the Spanish Civil War...
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https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00324.19

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