Personified by elegant Gropius and touted by hyperconnected Johnson, the Bauhaus became a ready standard-bearer for International Style architecture.
This exclusive 2, 600-acre gated enclave 40 miles and some 45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan, nestled in the Ramapo Mountains, boasts 100 year-old trees, three pristine lakes, an 18-hole golf course, and a significant spectrum of European-style architecture.
While the 103 guest rooms and suites are now light-splashed and modern, the familiar Spanish-style architecture remains it now matches the new 12, 000-square-foot building which houses a bell tower, fitness studio, Spa by La Prairie and three airy guest rooms with open floor plans and retractable interior walls.
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Starting in the mid-1990s with Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, a new, sculptural style of architecture has given large-scale public art a run for its money.
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The five-star Palais Namaskar Marrakech opens 6 April, a confection of Andalusian architecture set in 12 acres of Balinese-style water gardens with 41 rooms, suites, villas and even two mini-palaces.
"Not fixing my style, I keep extending the possibilities of architecture, " he told CNN.
In Grossbasel, the Altstadt (Old Town) charms with its 15th- and 16th-century architecture, including many half-timbered houses, a common architectural style in the German-speaking areas (of both Switzerland and Germany) north of the Alps.
With Hotel Missoni, the eponymous Italian fashion house has established a style icon in the heart of the Old Town: modernist architecture, impeccable staff and very comfortable bedrooms.
As the founder and longtime head of the Museum of Modern Art's pioneering Department of Architecture and Design, Johnson had introduced Modernism to America as the International Style in the now landmark 1932 exhibition done in collaboration with the historian Henry Russell Hitchcock.
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By the time the clarion call was sounded by the Museum of Modern Art's "Modern Architecture" show in 1932, he had become a master of the International style.
So their Africa has wonderful architecture but no roadside rubbish dumps, lively streets but no beggars, plush New York-style apartments but no shanty towns.
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