Modern building designs

Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect – South American buildings, photos, Brazilian architecture – Oscar Niemeyer architect, Brasilia, South American building designs

Denys Lasdun Architect, England – one of leading architects of 1960s – buildings photos, Modern architecture, Cambridge colleges designs, UK

Walter Gropius Architect – key buildings, Bauhaus founder, Modernist, Photos – 20th Century American architecture, Modern design projects Germany such as Werkbund Exhibition – office & factory, Cologne.

John Lautner architect – Modern Californian buildings, US domestic architecture, 20th Century houses, USA building designs, residential architecture

Eero Saarinen architect – buildings photo, 20th C architecture, American designer, New York TWA Terminal – Eero Saarinen designs in the USA

The first residence designed by this architect isn’t protected, and could face the wrecking ball. Owners have listed it for $1 million, hoping a preservation-minded buyer will step up. Architect Philip Johnson won the Pritzker Prize in 1979 and was famous for promoting the Postmodernist style.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architects news – Renewal by HBRA Architects, Chicago, of The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM in 1963. The building is a Modernist masterpiece.

Berthold Lubetkin Architect moved to London, England form Paris in 1930. He directed Tecton until 1947. Architectural influences included Auguste Perret and Le Corbusier. He was the RIBA Gold Medal 1982 Winner. The msot famous Lubetkin building is the Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Regent’s Park.

A 2-carat diamond ring has been created by compressing the cremated remains of Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Conceptual artist Jill Magid from Brooklyn spent years plotting her proposal to the owners of his professional archive: open it to the public