Switzerland
Maison Blanche (Villa Jeanneret-Perret, 1912), La Chaux-de-Fonds
White walls where pine-motif plasterwork used to be: at the top of the same lane as the Pouillerel…
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Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
The best-preserved Baroque court theatre interior in the world — a gilded horseshoe of painted wood, original 18th-century…
2671
Noravank Monastery
A medieval Armenian monastic complex clinging to a cliff ledge in a narrow crimson limestone gorge — among…
3108
Rietveld Schröder House
The most radical house of the early twentieth century — built in 1924 in Utrecht by Gerrit Rietveld…
2305
Sumela Monastery
A Byzantine cliff monastery built into a sheer rock face at 1,200 metres altitude in the Pontic Mountains…
2410
The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Eight buildings across six US states document seventy years of organic architecture — from the poured-concrete revolution of…
2301
The Persian Caravanserai — 54 UNESCO-Listed Roadside Inns of Iran
For a thousand years, the vast Iranian plateau was crossed by a web of roadside inns — caravanserais…
1535
Unity Temple — Frank Lloyd Wright’s Concrete Sanctuary, Oak Park
Frank Lloyd Wright's "little jewel" — the first major American public building of poured reinforced concrete and one…
Switzerland
Villa Fallet (Style Sapin, 1906), La Chaux-de-Fonds
An eighteen-year-old drew the plans; a neighbourhood of pine-cone plasterwork was the result. It was Jeanneret’s first house…
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