"Century of Progress" was the theme of Chicago's World's Fair in 1933-34. The General Motors building was designed in a Streamline Moderne style by architect Albert Kahn. Visitors could view GM's new car models and watch autos being manufactured in a large-scale recreation of an assembly plant.

Photographer unknown, digital restoration by Modernist Collection

#artdecoarchitecture #worldsfair #chicagoarchitecture

In 1923, Junzō Yoshimura decided to become an architect when he first walked into Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Yoshimura went on to design everything from houses to museums. We think this is his design for a small tea house and koi pond at Japan House in New York, 1940.

(Photographer unknown)
#japanesearchitecture #teahouse #japanesemodern

Finnish architect Viljo Revell designed the futuristic Toronto City Hall in the mid-1960s. Two curved towers face a flying-saucer like structure that houses the city council chambers.

Photographer unknown, circa 1963

#torontoarchitecture #canadiandesign #skyscrapers

In 1934, the Bauhaus-influenced Hoffmann House was built for a Hungarian statistics scientist. Located in Budapest, the geometric structure was designed by architect József Fischer.

Photographer unknown; digital restoration by Modernist Collection)

#Bauhaus #internationalstyle #hungarianarchitecture
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Hungarian photographer Márton Mogyorósy casts his lens to the vibrant walls of La Muralla Roja (The Red Wall). The postmodern residential complex designed by late architect Ricardo Bofill in Calpe, Spain, becomes the muse for this new photo series. The design, fortress-like housing clusters of courtyards within, bears reference to the architecture of Arab Mediterranean, notably the adobe towers of North Africa, and reinterpreting the tradition of the Kasbah. Its striking silhouette enveloped with an array of colors both contrast and complement the engulfing natural context. The series spans drone photography to capture aerial views of the site’s geometric plan, profiles of the vast walls and labyrinthine interiors, and detail shots abstracting dynamic interplays of light and shade.

#Architecture #Photographer #RicardoBofill #light #shadow

Wolfgang Volz là nhiếp ảnh gia gắn kết với bộ đôi cố nghệ sĩ Christo và Jeanne-Claude trong suốt 50 năm kể từ 1972 tới nay, được nhà sử học nghệ thuật Werner Spiess ví như “đôi mắt của Christo và Jeanne-Claude”.

#WolfgangVolz #ChristoJeanneClaude #Photographer