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The International Style
The International Style
• Completed 1952
• New York, NY
• Le Corbusier
Seagram Building
• Completed 1957
• New York, NY (park
avenue)
• Ludwig Mies van
Der Rohe (and
Phillip Johnson)
Access to new building technologies like
reinforced concrete , and steel framework
for building meant that designers could
seek a whole new approach to what is
known as the plan or the layout of the
interiors of buildings.
The enormous strength of these new
materials opened new worlds for designers
that were unheard of in building before.
Glass Palace
(the Netherlands – Frits Peutz) 1935
Ludwig Mies Van der
Rohewig
Chicago, Illinois 1949
Ludwig Mies Van der Rohewig
Chicago, Illinois 1973
Gropius House
Walter Gropius
The Farnsworth House