Cohans`s villa....

Asmara....a place to visit !

Cinema Impero....

Asmara, 1937

Cinema Roma....

Asmara, Eritrea, (1930`s ?)

H.L. Shah....

St. Peter's Church, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1962

Anthony Almeida....

Central Library, Maktaba Kuu Ya, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 1967

Modernism in Africa....

Asmara, Eritrea, Fiat Tagliero Building by Giuseppe Pettazzi,1938

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"As Peter Cachola-Schmal, director of the Deutsches Architektur Museum (DAM) hosting the exhibition Asmara: Afrikas heimliche Hauptstadt der Moderne in Frankfurt rather cynically remarks in his foreword to Asmara: The frozen City: "poverty is the best conservation tool".

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Krakow and Havana are two other examples of the relation between lacks of money, and preservation of the built heritage....

Washington Dulles International Airport....

Eero Saarinen, 1962

Kunsten - Museum of modern Art Aalborg....

Designed by Elissa and Alvar Aalto and Jean-Jacques Baruël, 1972

Le Corbusier....

Villa Stein, Garches, 1927

Palácio do Planalto....

Brasilia, Oscar Niemayer, 1958

Léon Stynen....

British Petroleum Building in Antwerp, 1963
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....a suspended piece of excellent architecture.

Fredrikshavn....

den 14 juli 2007....

Juan O'Gorman....

The houses of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Mexico city, 1930

Palm Springs, 1971....

Merrill Lynch Building by Donald Wexler

Ruy Athouguia, Cascais, 1952....

Casa das Canoas, 1953....

The residence of Oscar Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro

Gropius House....

Boston, Massachusetts, Walter Gropius, 1938

Louis Herman de Koninck....

Villa Berteaux, Avenue du Fort Jaco, Brussels, 1936

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This is modernism with.......M (click to enlarge)

Hester & Jones....

Horizon Home, San Diego, 1963

1968....

Filinto Amorim, 1968

Alto Rungue, Maitencillo, Chile

Assadi & Pulido, 2007

Vall de Bianya, La Garrotxa, Spain

Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura, 2006

Niels Bruun and Henrik Corfitsen....

Gest houses at Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, 2000

Cullberg Arkitektkontor

Filmstaden (cinema) in Göteborg, 2006, with the Nya Ullevi Stadium (1958) in the background

Hydra Pier....

By Asymptote Architecture is a permanent structure built originally as a pavilion for Haarlemmermeer's Floriade exhibition in 2002

Mari and Stewart Williams House, Palm Springs, 1955

Who`s in....and who`s out ?

Wallace Beery Duplex....

William Kesling, LA, 1936

Harry Seidler....again !

Berman House, Joadja, New South Wales, 1999

Braille Institute of America....

William L. Pereira, LA, 1977

Álvaro Siza....

House in the beautiful Island of Mallorca, 2007

Balconies....

Dessau, Walter Gropius, 1925-26

Buff, Straub and Hensman....

Case Study House 20, Altadena, LA, 1958
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....that pine tree could become a bit scary on a windy day