modernism
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In the end, this is one more strand of this curious architect, whose traditional modernism is now the default vernacular for clients who do not want eye-catching signature buildings.
In the early 1960s, Ames faced fierce opposition from civic groups, who decried modernism as a threat to Balboa Park’s Spanish heart.
From Los Angeles Times
“I always feel people become more themselves when they’re in their house,” Reinsve tells me on a cloudless autumn morning at Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1921 premonition of California modernism.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s both a portrait of Picasso, that Zeus of 20th-century modernism, as a cultural outcast, a pariah, and an indictment of the culture — French — that made him one.
From New York Times
The mysterious French opera had its premiere in 1902 at a time when Paris was artistically reinventing itself into the city of 20th century modernism.
From Los Angeles Times
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