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Modernist and Bauhaus Architects and Designers

Architects and designers of the twentieth century Modern Movement, who rejected ornament and historic styles for plain geometry, new materials and function, including the Bauhaus school and the International Style. A person belongs here when the cited article calls the architect or designer modern or modernist, or ties them to the Bauhaus. It excludes the Postmodern and high-tech architects who reacted against Modernism.

Modernist and Bauhaus Architects and Designers
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Alvar Aalto

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Balkrishna Doshi

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Dieter Rams

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Eileen Gray

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Gordon Bunshaft

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Herbert Bayer

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Jørn Utzon

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Josef Albers

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Kenzo Tange

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Kevin Roche

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László Moholy-Nagy

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Le Corbusier

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Lilly Reich

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Louis Kahn

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Luis Barragan

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Marcel Breuer

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Marianne Brandt

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Oscar Niemeyer

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Paul Rand

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Peter Behrens

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Philip Johnson

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Richard Meier

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Richard Neutra

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Sori Yanagi

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Walter Gropius

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Wilhelm Wagenfeld

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Richard Meier (Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate page)
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conventional modernist practice provocatively beyond established limits
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Richard Neutra (Wikipedia)
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Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect.
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Kevin Roche (Wikipedia)
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Kevin Roche was the archetypal modernist and "member of an elite group of third generation modernist architects, James Stirling, Jørn Utzon, and Robert Venturi, and is considered to be the most logical and systematic designer of the group.
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Jørn Utzon (Wikipedia)
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And he was the only Danish architect who made a significant contribution to the global development of Modernism. == See also == Architecture of Denmark == References == == Further reading == Michael Asgaard Andersen: Jørn Utzon.
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Wikipedia: Luis Barragan
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In 1967 he created one of his best-known works, the San Cristóbal Estates equestrian development in Mexico City. === Barragán and the Modernist movement === Barragán visited Le Corbusier and became influenced by European modernism.
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Peter Behrens (Wikipedia)
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After the First World War, he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid-1920s increasingly to New Objectivity.
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Lilly Reich (Wikipedia)
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Reich was an important figure in the early Modern Movement in architecture and design.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Wikipedia)
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He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture.
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Walter Gropius (Wikipedia)
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Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (German: [ˈvaltɐ ˈadɔlf ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈɡʁoːpiʊs]; 18 May 1883-5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
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Marcel Breuer - Wikipedia
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Marcel Lajos Breuer ( BROY-ur; May 21, 1902, July 1, 1981) was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer.
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Eileen Gray - Wikipedia
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Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 1878-31 October 1976) was an Irish interior designer, furniture designer and architect who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.
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Wikipedia: Marianne Brandt
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Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893-18 June 1983) was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus Metall-Werkstatt (Metal Workshop) in Dessau in 1928.
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Wikipedia: Josef Albers
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In 1920, Albers joined the Weimar Bauhaus as a student and became a faculty member in 1922, teaching the principles of handicrafts.
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László Moholy-Nagy (Wikipedia)
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László Moholy-Nagy (; Hungarian: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ]; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895, November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school.
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Wikipedia: Paul Rand
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He developed an American Modernist style from European influences and was one of the first American commercial artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design.
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Wikipedia: Wilhelm Wagenfeld
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Wilhelm Wagenfeld (15 April 1900, Bremen, German Empire, 28 May 1990, Stuttgart, West Germany) was a German industrial designer and former student of the Bauhaus art school.
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Wikipedia: Le Corbusier
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887-27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a French-Swiss architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer who is described as one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture.
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Wikipedia: Oscar Niemeyer
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Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907-5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈoskaʁ ni.eˈmajeʁ]), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.
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Wikipedia: Kenzo Tange
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Renowned for synthesizing traditional Japanese styles with modernism, Tange's work was emblematic of the Japanese postwar boom.
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Wikipedia: Balkrishna Doshi
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Having worked under Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, he was a pioneer of modernist and brutalist architecture in India.
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Wikipedia: Sori Yanagi
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He played a role in Japanese modern design developed after World War II to the high-growth period in the Japanese economy.
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Wikipedia: Alvar Aalto
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The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards.
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Wikipedia: Gordon Bunshaft
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Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909, August 6, 1990) was an American architect, a leading proponent of modern design in the mid-twentieth century.
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Wikipedia: Philip Johnson
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was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture
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Wikipedia: Dieter Rams
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Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932) is a German industrial designer who is most closely associated with the consumer products company Braun, the furniture company Vitsœ, and the functionalist school of industrial design.
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Wikipedia: Louis Kahn
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Initially working in a fairly orthodox version of the International Style
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Wikipedia: Herbert Bayer
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Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising
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