Topic: Modernism
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Why Modernism Gets Blamed for Making Snowstorms Worse
It’s easy to take potshots when architects push the envelope. But the flat roof is problematic as a more basic matter of function.
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Photos
13 Eye-Catching Houses of Worship
Contemporary churches, temples and mosques that caught our attention.
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How a Political Convention Helped Save America's First Modernist Skyscraper
In 2000, the RNC unwittingly became a preservationist force in Philadelphia.
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The Manifesto for a New Urbanism That Came Before 'New Urbanism'
A 20-year-old's manifesto for the anti-modernist city was written years before the actual New Urbanist movement. Radicalism aside, there are surprising overlaps.
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Photos
Paul Rudolph and the Challenge of Preserving Modern Architecture
A photographer sets out to capture as many of the architect's remaining buildings as he can, before they're gone.
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Photos
Skyscrapers of the Mad Men Era
Mysterious, simple, intimidating. These buildings define the 1960s just as much as a certain show.
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An Architecture Firm That Likes Its Urbanism 'Messy'
Kansas City's eldo has managed to merge modern design and 'hyper functionality' in its latest set of projects
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A New Life for Pruitt-Igoe
A design competition is underway to re-imagine America's most infamous public housing complex
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Videos
Toronto's Modernist Architecture: A Love Letter
A short film by Davide Tonizzo shows off the city's sometimes forgotten mid-century buildings
