Modernist Architecture

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Like the surrounding Barbican housing estate, the Barbican Centre was designed by the team of Chamberlin, Powell, and Bon. It was shoehorn...

My favorite pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Nordic Pavilion by Sverre Fehn (1959). Photo ©Darren Bradley As you probably know if y...

This circular portal forms the entrance to the chapel. Photo ©Darren Bradley While in Venice last week, I had to make an obligatory sto...

The SC Johnson Research Tower opened in 1950, 11 years after the main part of the facility. Its cantilevered floors are supported entirely...

The Benjamin Residence, or "Round House" as the locals call it, was designed by Alex Jelinek in 1956. Photo ©Darren Bradley Ye...

An abandoned bank in downtown Santa Rosa. Photo ©Darren Bradley Mid-Century Modernist architecture is far from safe these days. But th...

The former restaurant of what was once May Co. department store at Mission Valley Center. Photo ©Darren Bradley Anyone who's ever...

LA Forum by Charles Luckman (1967)... See what I did there with the title of the blog? I know... I crack myself up. Photo ©Darren Bradley ...

The Pearlroth House (aka "Double Diamond") on Westhampton Beach, NY. Photo ©Darren Bradley Welcome to the Pearlroth House, o...