Chicago — Frank Lloyd Wright and the Birth of Modern Architecture
Chicago did not merely host the modern movement — it generated it. From Louis Sullivan's skyscraper ornament to…
Chicago did not merely host the modern movement — it generated it. From Louis Sullivan's skyscraper ornament to…
In the two decades after 1913, Danish architecture refused both academic revivalism and the bare machine aesthetic. It…
On a hill east of the city centre, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig gathered a community of artists in…
Dire Dawa did not grow; it was drawn. When the railway from Djibouti could not climb to Harar,…
Granted city status in 1935, Durban grew through the decade that made Art Déco a worldwide language. The…
Havana built its first towers in the boom years between the world wars, when a sugar-rich elite reached…
The gold money of the 1930s rose into stepped towers across the Johannesburg city centre. Anstey's Building and…
Portugal called its Art Nouveau Arte Nova, and Lisbon wore it in tiled shopfronts and ironwork. Two decades…
An earthquake in 1895 cleared the ground for a new Ljubljana. First came the Vienna Secession, then the…
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