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All Modernist Houses

Houses of the twentieth century that broke with historic styles for open plans, glass walls, flat roofs and new materials, from the villa on the edge of Paris to the steel and glass house on the Illinois floodplain and the prefabricated home of California. A house belongs here when the cited article calls it a modernist, modern or minimalist house. It excludes historic estates and palaces. The group follows the style the cited article names.

All Modernist Houses
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Rietveld Schroder House (Wikipedia)
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The house is one of the best known examples of De Stijl-architecture and arguably the only true De Stijl building.
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Villa Tugendhat (Wikipedia)
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It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.
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Farnsworth House (Wikipedia)
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It is one of three private residences Mies designed in the U.S. and is cited as a major modernist work.
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Villa Savoye - Wikipedia
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Villa Savoye (French pronunciation: [savwa]) is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France.
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Kaufmann Desert House (Wikipedia)
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The house has been described as "an architectural marvel that helped define the modernist aesthetic of the resort city of Palm Springs".
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Eames House (Wikipedia)
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Designed in the mid-century modern style, the house was constructed in 1949 by Eames Office designers Charles and Ray Eames for themselves.
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Stahl House (Wikipedia)
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The Stahl House (also known as Case Study House No. 22) is an American Modernist-styled house in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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