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MARCH 3, 2025

Our Art Deco Centenary series will delve into the style throughout March but to help start us off, this five-minute guide covers all the basics. Art deco refers to a design style that was particularly prevalent in the 1920s and 30s. Above: Hillier's 1968 book popularised the term "art deco". What makes something art deco?

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the Howard Gilman Foundation (1290.2000). Perspective drawing of the Lower Manhattan Expressway / City Corridor project (unbuilt), New York ca.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Previously, the Breuer building was home to the Whitney, later accommodating the Frick Collection and serving as a venue for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern and contemporary pieces. The auction house has successfully acquired the building, situated on Madison Avenue, New York City, from the Whitney Museum.

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MARCH 24, 2025

The term "art deco" is being applied too liberally to architecture built under colonialism, writes Edward Denison as part of our Art Deco Centenary series. Art deco's giddy rise in popularity has transformed not only our understanding of design in the early 20th century, but also the way we understand global architectural histories.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 7, 2025

Image Teo Ala-Ruona The Nordic countries' display at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is housed in Sverre Fehn's celebrated 1962 Nordic Pavilion , a landmark of architectural modernism representing Sweden , Norway , and Finland. Read more

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APRIL 15, 2024

© chris-johnson/Unsplash Throughout various historical civilizations and art movements, from Classical Greece and Rome to the Renaissance and the Bauhaus, the collaboration between art and architecture has been a significant societal expression.

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MAY 3, 2023

The first dedicated museum of modern and contemporary art in Turkish history is finally opening its doors this week following the completion of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) -designed Istanbul Modern in the country’s most populous city.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

Modern architecture originated in the early twentieth century in Europe and later expanded worldwide, particularly in the United States, where many European architects emigrated. Modernism reacted against nineteenth-century historical architectural styles, such as Neoclassicism and Revivalism. Moscow, Russia. |

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Deezen

MARCH 20, 2025

Southeast London 's Eltham Palace is an unusual marriage of medieval and Tudor architecture and the opulent interior-design choices of 1930s millionaires, which forms the next instalment in our Art Deco Centenary series. It wasn't until Seely & Paget's art deco project that the site was catapulted into the contemporary design scene.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

An opening for the forthcoming new Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland (MSN Warsaw) from Thomas Phifer and Partners is right around the corner, timed to the 20th anniversary of its founding early next year.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As part of Archinect In-Depth: Visualization , Niall Patrick Walsh explored the impact of two influential schools of architecture, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Bauhaus " both of which dramatically impacted architectural visualization in ways that continue to resonate today. "

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Local architecture studio Dílna has extended the art department at Masaryk University in Brno , Czech Republic, creating a minimalist stack of studios that were designed to look "more like a modern art gallery than a traditional educational facility". The photography is by Studio Flusser.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The natural light was superb inside the new Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (MSN), a gleaming new 213,000-square-foot building designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners on Plac Defilad, an The post The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw by Thomas Phifer and Partners reckons with a multivalent context atop one of the world’s largest city squares appeared first (..)

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Deezen

MARCH 26, 2025

Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, we take a look at Paris 's Le Louxor movie theatre, a trove of Egyptian revival in the birthplace of cinema. Situated in the Parisian neighbourhood of Barbs, New York Times writer Elaine Sciolino described Le Louxor as "an art deco fantasy straight out of Egypt" when it reopened after the restoration.

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Deezen

JANUARY 14, 2025

Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha , Qatar, by IM Pei , the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". This blending of tradition and modernity often termed neo-vernacular defined the later era of Pei's career. Did we get it right? Let us know in the comments.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Located in the city of Kochi, TropiBox is informed by the architecture of tropical modernism – a style developed in the late 1940s as a blending of European modernism with the vernacular techniques of tropical regions. The photography is by Turtle Arts Photography.

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MAY 15, 2024

The overhaul of Arne Korsmo and Sverre Aasland’s original 1935 functionalist design evokes both the Tate Modern in London and Thomas Heatherwick ’s popular 2017 reimagining of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: Alan Williams Photography, image courtesy Kunstsilo.

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MARCH 7, 2025

The next art deco icon in our Art Deco Centenary series is the streamlined Chrysler Airflow a revolutionary car that pioneered aerodynamic automobile design. The carmaker had already made itself a major part of the art deco story with its development of the Chrysler Building in New York.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Image © Kurt Schwitters, Merzbau, Hannover, 1933 | Philipp Rümmele As far as history goes back, art and architecture have always been interrelated disciplines. Read more »

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Tashkent: Appropriating Modernism, installation view showing a reproduction of the columns and canopy of the Zarafshan restaurant at 1:2 scale, original and contemporary forms. The showcase spotlights three essential instances of modern architecture in Tashkent , Uzbekistan. Photo: Ivan Erofeev. Read more »

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MARCH 17, 2025

Art deco has a history of being a glitzy distraction from effecting genuine change during moments of turmoil, writes Catherine Slessor as part of our Art Deco Centenary series. In 2021, before his acquisition and despoliation of what was then Twitter, Elon Musk tweeted "I love Art Deco" (709,000 likes). That would be sick!"

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Photo by © Karel Balas, courtesy Rizzoli These buildings have all been lovingly captured in a new Rizzoli book, Tashkent: A Modernist Capital (out November 12, 2024), an extension of years of work by the Uzbekistan Art And Culture Development Foundation, which aims to preserve the architectural marvels.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In this sun-soaked land, with limited access to timber but more mud than you can shake a stick at, the Nubians mastered the art of building with the earth. Countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal are leading examples where this ancient construction method is being revived in an attempt to address modern housing needs.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Kengo Kuma and Associates has completed an overhaul of the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) in Lisbon , marking the acclaimed architect’s first completed project in Portugal.

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Deezen

MARCH 13, 2025

Art deco is starting to challenge mid-century modern 's dominance, says Vinterior founder Sandrine Zhang Ferron in this interview as part of our Art Deco Centenary series. In the second half of 2024, the volume of art deco sales tripled. Art deco comes in because you have all these very precious materials marble, brass.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Palm Springs Art Museum is set to open a comprehensive exhibition on the architect Albert Frey (1903–1998). Opening on January 13th, 2024, the exhibition titled ' Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist ' will feature drawings, plans, images, and models, including those from Frey’s personal archives.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

[Pharrell] Williams is aiming to reinstate arts competitions back on the world’s biggest sports stage, starting with raising awareness through his star-studded Louis Vuitton event Thursday in Paris. He passionately shared his goal to see the tradition revived by the Olympics in 2028 the night before the Games’ opening ceremony.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In’Cube Danone Research & Innovation Center / Arte Charpentier. But in order to capture the full potential of this material, a plethora of techniques and modifications have evolved with the purpose of adapting and customizing wood’s characteristics to the demands of modern design and construction.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Niteri Contemporary Art Museum by Oscar Niemeyer Donatas Dabravolskas via Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0 license Located on the top of the Boa Viagem viewpoint in the city of Niteri, the Niteri Contemporary Art Museum - MAC was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer.

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JANUARY 5, 2025

An example of the classically inspired Federal Art Deco idiom ( rare for Oregon and the only one of its kind in Lane County), the building is unique thanks to its symmetry, scale, polychrome terra cotta, and WPA murals. Like many other Art Deco projects, Eugenes U.S. Of the latter, the U.S. Post Office (built 1938-1939) stood out.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Courtesy of Kave Home Art has long been perceived as elitist, an image solidified by its deep ties to power and wealth. In the 17th century, with the rise of art academies, strict standards were established for what was considered "high culture," further distancing art from the masses.

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Deezen

MARCH 23, 2025

Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, this lookbook rounds up eight statement interiors that seek to incorporate a sense of 1920s glamour. Art deco interiors can be recognised by their decorative approach typically finished with geometric patterns, polished surfaces and extravagant materials like marble.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

"The spatial language was transformed to meet the needs of large, open, and multipurpose spaces, supporting exhibitions and performances while also accommodating creative offices, art training, and themed dining," it added. The photography is by MLEE Studio.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Research from a professor at the University of Aberdeen has advanced evidence that the art and practice of architectural drawing may have been invented by a 12th-century Scottish clergyman working in Paris around the time of the construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral and other important Gothic structures.

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APRIL 2, 2025

The main hall will be "reminiscent of the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern " Visitors will be able to access a rooftop space and multiple spaces for public activities, with E la nave va also connected to the nearby beach and surrounding area. "We For the first time, there will be a balcony facing Badalon," he added.

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MARCH 4, 2025

Extreme climate has helped shape modern architecture from its beginnings. The simplicity of uninterrupted geometries where the materials color and texture provided decorative richness came to define early modern architecture. Santa Fe Federal Savings and Loan (now Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture and Design Center) by E.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Image Courtesy of Glamora Greek and Roman cultures laid the foundations for modern civilization, leaving a lasting legacy in philosophy, literature, mathematics, and art. In this modern context, the Greco-Roman mythology, epic tales, and classical architectural concepts inspire a fresh perspective on reimagining interior aesthetics.

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