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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64-167
Modern Home Plan # 64-167
2269 sq ft From $1,200.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 3 2 2 82' 47'
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451-15
Modern Home Plan # 451-15
3012 sq ft From $2,500.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
4 3 2 2 70' 36'
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484-2
Modern Home Plan # 484-2
1845 sq ft From $1,895.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 3½ 2 2 42' 46'
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23-2237
Modern Home Plan # 23-2237
3198 sq ft From $1,080.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
4 2½ 2 1 48' 44'
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64-181
Modern Home Plan # 64-181
2592 sq ft From $1,200.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
4 2½ 2 2 44' 66'
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64-166
Modern Home Plan # 64-166
2256 sq ft From $1,200.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
2 2½ 2 2 30' 48'
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64-172
Modern Home Plan # 64-172
2517 sq ft From $1,200.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 2 1 2 56' 92'
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64-151
Modern Home Plan # 64-151
4757 sq ft From $1,400.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
6 5 2 2 53' 89'
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48-247
Modern Home Plan # 48-247
3692 sq ft From $825.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
4 3½ 3 3 54' 46'
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72-179
Modern Home Plan # 72-179
3278 sq ft From $802.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
5 3½ 1 0 76' 70'
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48-246
Modern Home Plan # 48-246
3741 sq ft From $825.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
4 3½ 3 3 54' 46'
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64-183
Modern Home Plan # 64-183
2457 sq ft From $1,200.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
4 2 1 2 92' 39'
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312-414
Modern Home Plan # 312-414
2139 sq ft From $725.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 2 1 2 106' 39'
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489-1
Modern Home Plan # 489-1
1491 sq ft From $725.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 2 1 2 50' 48'
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48-261
Modern Home Plan # 48-261
2861 sq ft From $950.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 2½ 2 2 60' 52'
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23-2225
Modern Home Plan # 23-2225
1372 sq ft From $665.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
2 1 1 0 36' 48'
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508-1
Modern Home Plan # 508-1
2415 sq ft From $2,500.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
2 2 1 0 105' 23'
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445-6
Modern Home Plan # 445-6
2580 sq ft From $1,450.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
4 3½ 1 2 89' 4" 52' 1"
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25-320
Modern Home Plan # 25-320
1643 sq ft From $780.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
2 1 1 1 32' 34'
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120-117
Modern Home Plan # 120-117
2394 sq ft From $675.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 3 2 2 76' 50'
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64-142
Modern Home Plan # 64-142
1345 sq ft From $1,100.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
1 1 1 2 45' 30'
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431-5
Modern Home Plan # 431-5
2080 sq ft From $4,500.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 2 2 0 65' 18'
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512-2
Modern Home Plan # 512-2
1612 sq ft From $925.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
2 3 3 0 26' 33' 8"
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25-2292
Modern Home Plan # 25-2292
1044 sq ft From $520.00
Bed Bath Level Gar. Width Depth
3 1 2 0 36' 32'
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Useful information:
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.