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Casa Malaparte (also Villa Malaparte) is a house on Punta Massullo, on the eastern side of the isle of Capri, Italy. It is considered to be one of the best examples of Italian modern and contemporary architecture. The house was conceived around 1937 by the well-known Italian architect Adalberto Libera for Curzio Malaparte. [2]
Villa Savoye (French pronunciation:) is a modernist villa and gatelodge in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France.It was designed by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete.
E-1027 is a modernist villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France.It was designed and built from 1926–1929 by the Irish architect and furniture designer Eileen Gray and the French/Romanian Architect Jean Badovici. [1]
Villa Shodhan is considered to be an updated and more profound version of his Villa Savoye and Villa at Carthage. [24] The plan of Villa Shodhan recalls the ingenuity of the Villa Savoye, placed in a tropical setting. [25] It has also been stated that Villa Shodhan is the finest reinterpretation of the idea behind Maison Citrohan. [26]
Interior design has become the subject of television shows. In the United Kingdom, popular interior design and decorating programs include 60 Minute Makeover , Changing Rooms , and Selling Houses . Famous interior designers whose work is featured in these programs include Linda Barker and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.
Villa Tugendhat (Czech: Vila Tugendhat) is an architecturally significant building in Brno, Czech Republic.It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.
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Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant. [1] Contemporary architects work in several different styles, from postmodernism, high-tech architecture and new references and interpretations of traditional architecture [2] [3] to highly conceptual forms and designs, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale.