{"id":32035,"date":"2017-05-14T13:55:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T13:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bocadolobo.com\/blog\/?p=32035"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:16:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:16:55","slug":"10-powerful-mid-century-modern-homes-by-famous-architects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocadolobo.com\/blog\/architecture\/10-powerful-mid-century-modern-homes-by-famous-architects\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Powerful Mid-Century Modern Homes by Famous Architects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mid-Century<\/strong> <\/em>modern\u00a0is an architectural, interior, product and graphic design that generally describes mid-20th-century developments in modern design<\/strong>, architecture<\/strong> and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965. The term, employed as a style descriptor as early as the mid-1950s, was reaffirmed in 1983 by Cara Greenberg in the title of her book,\u00a0Mid-Century Modern<\/strong>: Furniture of the 1950s (Random House), celebrating the style that is now recognized by scholars and museums worldwide as a significant design movement. These masterpieces of modern architecture are still influencing home design today \u2014 see if any elements appear in your own home!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n \"Soleil<\/a>\n


\n<\/a>Lovell Beach House<\/b>
\n<\/a> Year built:\u00a0<\/b>1926
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Rudolph M. Schindler
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Newport Beach, California
\nVisiting info:<\/b>\u00a0Only rare visits scheduled
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0In this third residence that R.M. Schindler designed for Philip Lovell (a lover of modern architecture if there ever was one, for he also commissioned Richard Neutra to design a house), he raised the house on five sculptural columns to gain ocean views over neighboring buildings. The bravado structure also responds to seismic considerations and survived an earthquake five years after completion, one that destroyed a nearby school. Schindler worked for Frank Lloyd Wright previously, and that influence can be found in some details, but with this house the architect crafted his own personal modern style.<\/p>\n

See also:\u00a0Boca do Lobo & COVETED Magazine: Top 100 Interior Designers 2017<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gropius House<\/b>
\nYear built:\u00a0<\/b>1937
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Walter Gropius
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Lincoln, Massachusetts
\nVisiting info:<\/b>\u00a0Self-guided tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Walter Gropius, who had founded the influential Bauhaus School in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1937. He taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in\u00a0Cambridge, Massachusetts, and designed this house for his family in nearby Lincoln. Itsribbon windows\u00a0and white surfaces express a Bauhaus aesthetic, but underneath can be found strong regional influences.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>Eames House, Case Study House No. 8\u00a0<\/b>
\n<\/a> Year built:<\/b>\u00a01949
\nArchitects:<\/b>\u00a0Charles and Ray Eames
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Pacific Palisades, California
\nVisiting info:<\/b>\u00a0Reserved self-guided exterior tours only
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Although this house\/studio for designers\u00a0Charles and Ray Eames\u00a0is simply two rectangular volumes made of off-the-shelf steel structures and windows, it is a colorful expression of their design sensibility and a suitable backdrop for their collections and creations. It is also sensitively merged into the sloping site, showing that the house is as much about place as about universal modern ideals.<\/p>\n

See also: <\/strong>10 Interior Designers To Follow<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Gamble House<\/b>
\nYear built:<\/b>\u00a01908
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Greene and Greene
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Pasadena, California
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Docent guided tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0This house is a masterpiece of the Greene brothers\u2019 synthesis of styles and means \u2014 Arts and Crafts, art nouveau, Japanese\u00a0timber construction, bungalows. Many people are familiar with the house from the film\u00a0Back to the Future,<\/i>\u00a0as its\u00a0exterior\u00a0served as Doc\u2019s mansion (the interiors were filmed at a different Green and Greene house), but it deserves to be known by everybody on the merits of its well-crafted wood architecture, inside and out.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>Glass House<\/b>
\n<\/a> Year built:<\/b>\u00a01949
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Philip Johnson
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0New Canaan, Connecticut
\nVisiting info:<\/b>\u00a0Individual, private and group tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Philip Johnson was as much, if not more so, a proponent of architectural styles as a designer of them. He and Henry Russell Hitchcock, in their 1932\u00a0International Style\u00a0<\/i>of Modern Architecture<\/i>\u00a0exhibition at MoMA, helped to define what people think modern architecture is, even to this day. His Glass House, influenced by Mies van der Rohe\u2019s Farnsworth House (next) but completed two years before it, is the first of many structures Johnson designed and built on his New Canaan estate. Many of the later buildings embody other styles, but this house is explicitly and unabashedly modern.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>Farnsworth House<\/b>
\nYear built:<\/b>\u00a01951
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Plano, Illinois
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Individual and group tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Like Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe emigrated to the United States before World War II, arriving in Chicago and heading the Illinois (then Armour) Institute of Technology. His influence on postwar architecture is massive, but mainly on the\u00a0design of office\u00a0towers and other urban buildings. Next to the Fox River, west of Chicago, he designed a raised glass box that turned out to be his last residential commission, after Edith Farnsworth sued her architect. She echoed van der Rohe\u2019s famous dictum in her statement, \u201cLess is not more. It is simply less!\u201d<\/p>\n

See Also:\u00a0Back in Black With 10 Bathroom Design Idea<\/a>s<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Villa Mairea<\/b>
\nYear built:<\/b>\u00a01939
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Alvar Aalto
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Noormarkku, Finland
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Must inquire about tours in advance
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Finnish architect Alvar Aalto was given almost total freedom by Harry and Maire Gullichsen for the design of their summer home. Aalto, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s\u00a0Fallingwater\u00a0(1939 \u2014 Aalto saw it in project form in journals), strove for a design that was Finnish but modern. The resulting two-story, L-shaped house is an idiosyncratic design that expresses what British architect Colin St. John Wilson called \u201cthe other tradition of modern architecture,\u201d which placed humanism above ideology.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>Villa Savoye<\/b>
\nYear built:<\/b>\u00a01931
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Le Corbusier
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Poissy, France
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Individual and group tours available
\nMust know:\u00a0<\/b>This weekend house near Paris for Pierre and Emilie Savoye has become one of modern architecture\u2019s key icons, residential or otherwise. It perfectly encapsulates Le Corbusier\u2019s five points that he developed in the 1920s: raising the building on\u00a0pilotis<\/i>(slender columns), a free facade that was independent of the structural system, ribbon windows based on a similar logic, an open floor plan, and a roof garden that regained the ground lost through the building\u2019s occupation of the landscape.<\/p>\n

See Also:\u00a0Luxury Gold and Black Furniture for Modern Interiors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Frederick C. Robie House<\/b>
\nYear built:<\/b>\u00a01909
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/b>Chicago
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Guided and group tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0One aspect of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s genius was the need to constantly reinvent himself and his architecture, perfecting a type of design and then moving on to something else. The Robie House can be seen as the apotheosis of his Prairie style, which he started to develop in the early 1890s and abandoned in favor of his democratic,\u00a0Usonian\u00a0designs. The low-slung house perfectly embodies the horizontal relationship of house to landscape of Wright\u2019s organic architecture.<\/p>\n

Schr\u00f6der House
\n<\/b>Year built:<\/b>\u00a01924
\n<\/b>Architect:<\/b>\u00a0Gerrit Rietveld
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/b>Utrecht, Netherlands
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Audio tours or guided tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0At first glance Gerrit Rietveld\u2019s design for Schr\u00f6der House is like a painting come to life. Traditional ideas of construction and enclosure, outside and inside, don\u2019t appear; in their place are lines, planes and splashes of color. These traits also apply to furniture that Rietveld designed, pointing to the synthesis that he and his Dutch contemporaries realized through the short-lived\u00a0De Stijl\u00a0(\u201cthe style\u201d) movement.<\/p>\n

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