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Brutalism in it's infancy!

palazzo farnese, antonio da sangallo, roma

#palazzo farnese #italian renaissance #monumentalscale #repetition #proportions #cornice #rome #italy #grand entrance #stoneandconcrete

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Plant life reinterpreted

#modern architecture #museum #qatar #middle east #reinforced concrete #sculptural form #tiered #petals

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Pre- Zaha Hadid!

Detalle de la fachada, Casa Alonso Rebaque, calle de la Escarcha 22, Jardines del Pedregal, Ciudad de México 1962

Arqs. Héctor Alonso Rebaque y Félix Candela

Foto.   Photos Espinosa

Detail of the facade, Casa Alonso Rebaque, Escarcha 22, Gardens of Pedregal, Mexico City 1962

#modern architecture #residential architecture #reinforced concrete #free form design #parabola #facade #glass and concrete #glass wall #mexican architecture

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Brutalist Navigator

Casa del Portuale, by Aldo Loris Rossi (1968-1980).

Naples, Italy.

Photo included in my last book "Brutalist Italy".

© Roberto Conte (2021)

#italian brutalism #architettura #aldo rossi #reinforcedconcrete #asymmetrical #naples #italy #formfollowsfunction

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Modernist jigsaw puzzle!

(via David Closes, Adrià Goula, José Hevia · New entrance façade of the Baroque Museum of Catalonia · Divisare)

#modern architecture #museum architecture #angulargeometry #historic preservation #adaptive reuse #catalonia #entrance #facade

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Mayan dream!

Frank Lloyd Wright, Ennis House, 1923-24

#modern architecture #franklloydwright #maya #california #rythmic pattern #archway #precast concrete #concrete blocks

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Magnificent!

Frank Lloyd Wright - Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, 1915-1921.

#handrawn #modern architecture #brickwork #oriental #franklloydwright #hotel #tokyo #japan #architectural detail

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Brilliant minds think alike!

Le Corbusier x Picasso 

#modern architecture #modern art #cubism #brutalism #pablo picasso #le corbusier #artisticexpression #buildings #painting

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Block Fortress

#brutalist architecture #modern architecture #palace #monumentalism #volumetrics

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Brutalist overature in New York

Endo Pharmaceuticals in Garden City, New York, 1960. Designed by Paul Rudolph.

(Library of Congress)

#paul rudolph #brutalist architecture #repetitiveforms #concrete mass #circular geometry #garden city #long island #pharmaceutical #modern architecture

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Great video!

LE CORBUSIER 2.0 (2013) 

Cute animated overview of the Five Points of New Architecture.

Le Corbusier 2.0 VOST from Alix Bossard A.K.A L'intrépide on Vimeo.

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Living Rock

Casa Paracho, Dedo de Dios, Michoacan, Mexico,

Courtesy: GAM & ZUN-ZUN

#architecture #concept #retreat #luxury home #mexico #mountain #brutalist #modern architecture #reinforced concrete #casa paracho #michoacan

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American Modernism

Lake Shore Drive, Mies Van Der Rohe

#modern architecture #metalandglass #skyscraper #ludwig mies van der rohe #chicago architecture #modernism #lake view

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Brutalism in motion

BMW Headquarters and Museum (1968-73) in Munich, Germany, by Karl Schwanzer

#architecture #germany #office building #germanmodernism #concrete #reinforced concrete #repetitiveforms #curvilinear #multistories #horizontalemphasis

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Scaenae Frons -Corbu Style

Tower of Shadows, India,1957

Le Corbusier

#reinforcedconcrete #background screening #modern architecture #repetitiveforms #monumentalism #india #architecture as sculpture

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International Style Personified

Le Corbusier,Villa Stein de Monzie, Garches, Paris, France-1927

#modern architecture #residential architecture #horizontalemphasis #frenchmodernism #lecorbusier #france #paris #canopy #balcony

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Symmetry and Balance

Housing block in Berlin, Germany by Aldo Rossi. Built in 1989.

Scan

#social housing #berlin #aldo rossi #postmodern #masonry #residential architecture #massivescale #glass facade #banding #germany