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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Esplanade Apartments and Lake Shore Drive Apartments Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson: Seagram Building Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye Walter Gropius Ludwig Mies van der Rohe The Bauhaus Dessau building designed by Walter Gropius features a modernist facade with large glass windows and the word Bauhaus in bold letters on a vertical gray tower. Philip Johnson: Glass House Michael Graves: Portland Public Service Building The Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, designed by Mies van der Rohe; photographed in 1955
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Savoye House, Poissy, Fr., an International Style residence by Le Corbusier, 1929–30
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Esplanade Apartments and Lake Shore Drive Apartments International Style of architecture as seen in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Esplanade Apartments (two buildings in right foreground) and Lake Shore Drive Apartments (two adjacent towers), Chicago.

International Style

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International Style, architectural style that developed in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and ’30s and became the dominant tendency in Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century. The most common characteristics of International Style buildings are rectilinear forms; light, taut plane surfaces that have been completely stripped of applied ornamentation and decoration; open interior spaces; and a visually weightless quality engendered by the use of cantilever construction. Glass and...

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