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unusual facts about International style



Avenida Santa Fe

It continues westward along the Retiro area, passing by the Brunetta ("Olivetti") Building (built in 1964, one the first in Buenos Aires designed in the International Style) and through the massive Avenida 9 de Julio, which was opened through the Retiro area in the early 1970s.

Jacobus Oud

As of 1932, he was considered one of the four greatest modern architects (along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier), and was prominently featured in Philip Johnson's International Style exhibition.

Kunsthalle Bielefeld

It was built in 1968 by the American architect Philip Johnson in the International Style that he had founded, and is his only museum building in Europe.

Polak and Sullivan

From a stylistic standpoint their output is extremely varied including at various times Romanesque Revival buildings, Gothic Revival buildings, Colonial buildings, Modern buildings and even a few buildings in International Style, which was rarely used for Roman Catholic churches.

Retiro, Buenos Aires

Other architecturally significant landmarks facing the plaza include the Paz Palace, the San Martín Palace, and the Olivetti and Pirelli skyscrapers, which were among the first in the city built in the International Style.

Williamsburg Houses

The chief architect of the project was Richmond Shreve, and the design team of nine other architects was led by the pioneering Swiss-American modernist William Lescaze, whose Philadelphia Saving Fund Society building of 1928-32 was one of the first major International Style buildings in the United States.


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Brno Exhibition Centre

Examples of its architecture were displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and appeared in the publication The International Style & Architecture, which introduced modernism to the New World.

Dumas House

Dumas House is an example of the Post-War International style of architecture, with a modular grid building plan, glazed panelling and an open piazza.

Fleet Center

50 Kennedy Plaza, an International-style skyscraper in Providence, RI