Modernism

This housing estate commissioned by a local sugar magnate was an early project by influential architect Le Corbusier.

Henri Matisse's final masterpiece.

This striking structure, with balconies jutting out like hedgehog spines, combine cutting-edge design with a playful approach to light and space.

A design by master architect Alvar Aalto in a small village in the Apennines near Bologna.

The design of this modernist church was revolutionary when it was constructed in 1942.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

Locally known as the "Onion” and the "Egg Beater,” Casper’s most recognizable buildings are beloved local landmarks to many, and eyesores to others.

An early masterpiece of Le Corbusier, a famed Modernist architect, hiding in plain sight.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

This modernist building is the last remnant of an ambitious plan to restore a neighborhood.

This house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan was destroyed twice and reconstructed to near original condition.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

After decades of neglect, a brutalist icon is getting new life as an eco-friendly hotel.