Modern Home Plans
Modern home designs offer clean lines, simple proportions, open plans and abundant natural light, and are descendants of the Bauhaus-influenced International style of architecture, which developed in the 1920s. The most influential architects of modern houses have been Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Charles and Ray Eames. Flat or shallow-pitched roofs, large expanses of glass, strong connections to outdoor space, and spare, unornamented walls are distinguishing characteristics of modern home style plans. The lot is often incorporated into the design, turning outdoor space into an alfresco living room. Mid-century modern style homes are increasingly valued for their easy indoor-outdoor flow and provide inspiration for today's Modern house plans. The Case Study House Program in Southern California sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine was a prominent exemplar of modern home design in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Many famous modern houses are worth studying for background, hints on details, and ideas for built-ins as you search for your perfect home plan. Here's our top five list of landmark modern houses: Villa Savoye (http://villa-savoye.monuments-nationaux.fr) of 1929 by Le Corbusier at Poissy near Paris. This is the most influential modern house in the world and became the symbol of Machine Age modernism: "the machine in the garden" and the "machine for living." Casa Luis Barragan (http://www.casaluisbarragan.org ) of 1948, by Luis Barragan, in Mexico City. Barragan was Mexico's most influential modern architect and his own house showcases abstract sculptural forms and deft interplays of light and shadow. Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (http://www.fallingwater.org ) of 1936 at Bear Run, Pennsylvania was the architect's response to European modernism: he rooted his very International Style-looking horizontal planes in the rustic bedrock of the waterfall, an architectural version of "Take That, You Greenhorns!" It is the ultimate essay in contradiction. If, as he is reputed to have said, he just shook the design out of his sleeve - like a sort of architectural playing card -- then this house was the ace of space. Philip Johnson's Glass House (http://philipjohnsonglasshouse.org/ ) at New Canaan, Connecticut of 1949 took German modernist Mies van Der Rohe's concept of the open, all-in-one, so-called "universalist" space to an extreme: only the bathroom is enclosed and the glass walls incorporate the surrounding landscape. The steel and glass house in Santa Monica, of 1949, by and for the husband-wife team of industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames (http://www.eamesfoundation.org/), showed how to use structural geometry as an orderly and poetic structural frame for housing diverse interior elements. The Eames house is really an elegant collecting box for cultural artifacts from around the world.
Many famous modern houses are worth studying for background, hints on details, and ideas for built-ins as you search for your perfect home plan. Here's our top five list of landmark modern houses: Villa Savoye (http://villa-savoye.monuments-nationaux.fr) of 1929 by Le Corbusier at Poissy near Paris. This is the most influential modern house in the world and became the symbol of Machine Age modernism: "the machine in the garden" and the "machine for living." Casa Luis Barragan (http://www.casaluisbarragan.org ) of 1948, by Luis Barragan, in Mexico City. Barragan was Mexico's most influential modern architect and his own house showcases abstract sculptural forms and deft interplays of light and shadow. Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (http://www.fallingwater.org ) of 1936 at Bear Run, Pennsylvania was the architect's response to European modernism: he rooted his very International Style-looking horizontal planes in the rustic bedrock of the waterfall, an architectural version of "Take That, You Greenhorns!" It is the ultimate essay in contradiction. If, as he is reputed to have said, he just shook the design out of his sleeve - like a sort of architectural playing card -- then this house was the ace of space. Philip Johnson's Glass House (http://philipjohnsonglasshouse.org/ ) at New Canaan, Connecticut of 1949 took German modernist Mies van Der Rohe's concept of the open, all-in-one, so-called "universalist" space to an extreme: only the bathroom is enclosed and the glass walls incorporate the surrounding landscape. The steel and glass house in Santa Monica, of 1949, by and for the husband-wife team of industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames (http://www.eamesfoundation.org/), showed how to use structural geometry as an orderly and poetic structural frame for housing diverse interior elements. The Eames house is really an elegant collecting box for cultural artifacts from around the world.
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