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Bauhaus
brutalist architecture
20th century style of architecture
modern architecture
type of architecture
Atomium
The Atomium ( , , ) is a landmark modernist building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed as the centrepiece of the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58). Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and the architects André and Jean Polak as a tribute to scientific progress, as well as to symbolise Belgian engineering skills at the time, it is located on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Laeken (northern part of the City of Brussels), where the exhibition took place. It is the city's most popular tourist attraction, and serves as a museum, an art centre and a cultural destination.
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
major library and cultural center in Alexandria, Egypt
functionalism
20th-Century architectural style
International Style
type of modernist architecture
organic architecture
philosophy of architectural design
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
serial World Heritage Site in seven countries around the world
Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban
national assembly building of Bangladesh
Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne
organization, network and series of congresses about the Modern Movement in architecture
Catalan modernism
Modernisme (, Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan culture, one of the most predominant cultures within Spain. Nowadays, it is considered a movement based on the cultural revindication of a Catalan identity. Its main form of expression was Modernista architecture, but it also encompassed many other arts, such as painting and sculpture, and especially the design and the decorative arts (cabinetmaking, carpentry, forg
Metabolism
architectural style
Googie
form of post-modern architecture style, a subdivision of futurist architecture
futurist architecture
architectural style
Burj Rafal
Hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Jatiyo Smriti Soudho
National monument of Bangladesh
constructivist architecture
1920s–30s architecture movement in the USSR combining advanced technology and engineering with Communist social purpose
Docomomo International
organization dedicated to documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the Modern Movement
Christian Norberg-Schulz
Norwegian architect (1926–2000)
structuralism
20th-Century architectural style
Michael Sorkin
American architect (1948-2020)
Wedding Palace
building in Tbilisi
Curutchet House
architectural monument in La Plata, Argentina
post-postmodernism
Post-postmodernism is a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from, and reacting to, postmodernism and its antecedent, modernism. While there are varied definitions of post-postmodernism, common themes include a focus on sincere reconnection with the world that modernism had positioned the observer above, or postmodernism had alienated them from. In contrast to the ironic and unstable belief systems endemic to postmodernism, common themes of post-postmodernism include sincerity, trust, faith, immersion and
Bauhaus Dessau
building complex in Dessau, Germany
Scandinavian design
20th century design movement
New Objectivity
architecture movement in (mainly German-speaking) Europe
ASNOVA
thumb|right|260px|Printing plant of "Ogonyok" magazine|The print shop of "Ogonyok" magazine designed by [[El Lissitzky]] thumb|right|260px|Izvestiia ASNOVA, no. 1 (1926), designed by El Lissitzky
Neomodern architecture
thumb|The Bay Adelaide Centre in Toronto. When first proposed in the 1980s the building had a strongly postmodernist design. The final design, completed in 2009, adopted the neomodern style. Neomodern or neomodernist architecture is a reaction to the complexity of postmodern architecture and eclecticism in architecture, seeking greater simplicity. The architectural style, which is also referred to as New Modernism, is said to have legitimized an outlook of comprehensive individualism and relativism.
OSA Group
organization
Mecca Gate
landmark at Jeddah–Makkah Highway
Sunnah Mosque
Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco
mid-century modern
architectural, interior, product, and graphic design of the mid-20th century
Sibelius Museum
museum in Turku, Finland
Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Church
Moroccan cultural heritage site
butterfly roof
type of roof
Dom-ino House
building in Unlocated
St. Paul's Cathedral
religious building of Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
Dubulti
railway station in Jūrmala, Latvia
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
art museum
Assembly Palace
building in Skopje, North Macedonia
OCBC Centre
Office building in Singapore
Steiner House
building in Ober Sankt Veit, Austria
concrete shell
structure composed of a relatively thin shell of concrete
ADGB Trade Union School
architectural structure
open air school
therapeutic school
Banovina Complex in Novi Sad
building complex in Vojvodina, Serbia
Swadhinata Stambha
national monument in Bangladesh
Japandi
thumb|Alfred Nobel Auditorium, Embassy of Sweden, TokyoJapandi is an interior design and architecture style that blends Japanese aesthetics and Scandinavian design, mixing Japanese minimalism and Scandinavian simplicity. The neologism is a portmanteau of “Japan” and “Scandi”. The Japandi term emerged around 2016, but much earlier the first examples of the fusion between Japanese and Scandinavian design styles could be seen in ceramic crafts, architecture, and Danish furniture.
Populuxe
thumb | right | alt=Rear view of a coral colored 1961 Buick with the license plate AINT PNK. | Example of the futuristic aesthetic of Populuxe. Populuxe was a consumer culture and aesthetic in the United States popular in the 1950s and 1960s. The term populuxe is a portmanteau of popular and luxury.
Golden Mile Complex
mixed-use development in Singapore
Supreme Court of Pakistan Building
building in Islamabad, Pakistan
MARS Group
organization