Iconic Modernist Houses
House↕ | Architect↕ | Location↕ | Country↕ | Completed↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fallingwater | Frank Lloyd Wright | Mill Run, Pennsylvania | United States | 1,939 | Cantilevered over a waterfall, organic architecture, Kaufmann family retreat |
| Villa Savoye | Le Corbusier | Poissy | France | 1,931 | Five Points of Architecture manifesto, pilotis, ribbon windows, roof garden |
| Farnsworth House | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Plano, Illinois | United States | 1,951 | Glass and steel pavilion, floating above flood plain, radical transparency |
| Glass House | Philip Johnson | New Canaan, Connecticut | United States | 1,949 | Johnson's own home, nearly all glass walls, inspired by Farnsworth |
| Schroder House | Gerrit Rietveld | Utrecht | Netherlands | 1,924 | Only true De Stijl building, primary colors, sliding walls, UNESCO site |
| Villa Tugendhat | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Brno | Czech Republic | 1,930 | Onyx wall, open plan, Barcelona chairs, UNESCO World Heritage site |
| Eames House (Case Study No. 8) | Charles and Ray Eames | Pacific Palisades, California | United States | 1,949 | Prefab industrial parts, Case Study Houses program, live-work studio |
| Villa Mairea | Alvar Aalto | Noormarkku | Finland | 1,939 | Natural materials, wood and stone, humanized modernism, Gullichsen commission |
| Casa Malaparte | Adalberto Libera | Capri | Italy | 1,942 | Cliffside red rectangular block, rooftop staircase, Godard's Contempt film location |
| Rose Seidler House | Harry Seidler | Wahroonga, Sydney | Australia | 1,950 | First modernist house in Australia, international style, elevated box |
| Casa Luis Barragan | Luis Barragan | Mexico City | Mexico | 1,948 | Architect's own home, colored walls, light and water, UNESCO site |
| Gropius House | Walter Gropius | Lincoln, Massachusetts | United States | 1,938 | Bauhaus founder's American home, prefab industrial materials, New England vernacular fusion |
| Stahl House (Case Study No. 22) | Pierre Koenig | Los Angeles | United States | 1,960 | Cantilevered LA view, Julius Shulman photograph, steel-frame glass box |
| Kaufmann Desert House | Richard Neutra | Palm Springs, California | United States | 1,946 | Desert modernism, pinwheel plan, Slim Aarons Poolside Gossip photo |
| Villa Muller | Adolf Loos | Prague | Czech Republic | 1,930 | Raumplan spatial concept, austere exterior, luxurious interior volumes |
| Maison de Verre | Pierre Chareau | Paris | France | 1,932 | Glass block facade, industrial materials, steel frame, hidden Parisian courtyard |
| Taliesin West | Frank Lloyd Wright | Scottsdale, Arizona | United States | 1,937 | Wright's desert winter home and studio, desert masonry, organic architecture |
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