MODERN

ARCHI

TECTURE

Research project
on studying Modernist Architecture in Eastern Europe

Photo:
Marina Reizberg

Location:
Kyiv, Ukraine

2019—2021

ABOUT

US

After the first World War, a prolonged struggle began between architects who favored the more traditional styles of neo-classicism and the Beaux-Arts architecture style, and the modernists, led by Le Corbusier and Robert Mallet-Stevens in France, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Germany, and Konstantin Melnikov in the new Soviet Union, who wanted only pure forms and the elimination of any decoration.

Louis Sullivan popularized the axiom Form follows function to emphasize the importance of utilitarian simplicity in modern architecture.

Art Deco architects such as Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage often made a compromise between the two, combining modernist forms and stylized decoration.

PLACES

>30

Research experts

>90

Cities in Eastern Europe

>1200

Interviews and materials

Belarus
Estonia
Latvia

Lithuania

Russia

Ukraine

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UKRAINE

KYIV, UKRAINE

DNIPRO, UKRAINE

Hotel Cosmos

Dnipro
1977

Photo:
Sasha Pleshco

Expocenter of Ukraine Kyiv
1975

Photo:
Marjan Blan

Typical Panelka

Ukraine
1972

Photo:
Sasha Pleshco

Frank Lloyd Wright resolutely refused to associate himself with any architectural movements. And not all of us liked it.

“Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature” — Marcus Favroe

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Team X and the 1953 International Congress of Modern Architecture

“Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature” — Marcus Favroe

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MEET

THE TEAM

STEVE

“Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature” — Marcus Favroe

JESS

Housing designer in the Johnathan Hay Centre that provided a "culturally specific living" for laborers and migrants from the countryside.

NATALIE

Centre that provided a "culturally specific living" for laborers and migrants from the countryside for laborers and migrants from the countryside.

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Louis Sullivan

Housing designer in the Johnathan Hay Centre that provided a "culturally specific living" for laborers and migrants from the countryside.

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Form follows function
to emphasize the importance of utilitarian simplicity in modern architecture.

Housing designer in the Johnathan Hay Centre that provided a "culturally specific living" for laborers and migrants from the countryside.

Urban planning in LA. Housing designer in the Johnathan Hay Centre that provided a "culturally specific living" for laborers and migrants from the countryside.

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Director of urban planning
in LA. Housing designer in the Johnathan Hay Centre that provided a "culturally specific living" for laborers.

Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature.

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PHOTO

GALLERY

The Beaux-Arts architecture style, and the modernists, led by Le Corbusier and Robert Mallet-Stevens in France, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Germany, and Konstantin Melnikov in the new Soviet Union, who wanted only pure forms and the elimination of any decoration.

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~ Architects combined both traditional and styles and techniques.

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HOW IT

WORKS

Important Indian modernist architects include BV Doshi, Charles Correa, Raj Rewal.

In India, modernist architecture was promoted by the postcolonial state under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

Several works or collections of modern architecture have been designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. In addition to the early experiments associated with Art Nouveau.

Private organizations such as Docomomo International, the World Monuments Fund.

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He designed many notable office buildings and cultural centers. office buildings, as well as the Yoyogi National Gymnasium for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

ACHIEVEMENTS

01.Performance

Gropius became an important theorist of modernism, writing The Idea and Construction in 1923.

02.Reliability

He was an advocate of standardization in architecture, and the mass construction of rationally designed apartment blocks for factory workers.

03.Resistance

In 1928 he was commissioned by the Siemens company to build apartment for workers in the suburbs of Berlin.

04.Durability

While Gropius was active at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe led the modernist architect movement.

05.Wellness

He became the vice president of the German Werkbund, and became the head of the Bauhaus from 1930 to 1932.

06.Respectful

Inspired by the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands, he built clusters of concrete summer houses and proposed a project for a glass office tower.

Modern architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from revolutions in technology, engineering, and building materials, and from a desire to break away from historical styles.

Denice Gulierm

The Beaux-Arts architecture style, and the modernists, led by Le Corbusier and Robert Mallet-Stevens in France, Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Germany.

Sarah Lewin

Architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from revolutions in engineering and building materials, and from a desire to break away from historical style.

Samuel Willson

Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature.

Alex Larkins

FREQUENTLY

ASKED QUESTIONS

Submit the modernist objects of your city to be included in our research

Modern east architecture

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