With more than 600 executed buildings to his credit, Frank Lloyd Wright is regarded by many as the greatest architect of the twentieth century. In 1900, he began designing his celebrated and unprecedented prairie houses, which include the Robie House in Chicago (1909) and the Coonley House (1908) in

Chicago school, Geometric, Modernist architecture, Organic, Organicism, Prairie school, Sophisticated, Voluminous

Professionalism and an appreciation of the arts were qualities instilled in Eero Saarinen at an early age. His father was a world-famous architect and head of the Cranbrook Institute of Architecture and Design near Detroit, while his mother was a sculptor, photographer, and weaver. After graduating f

International style, Modernist architecture

While pursuing his goal to make mass-producible, low-cost, high-quality building available and attractive to all classes, Richard Neutra came to rely on simpler, lighter, more modular means than any of his Modernist contemporaries. His work is distinguished by the way it embraces nature, felicitously

Clean, Egalitarian, Euphoric, Grand, International style, Modernist architecture, Witty

Had Le Corbusier had his way, most of his architectural activity would have been directed toward the collective housing of the many. But as things turned out, he spent most of his time designing villas and private mansions, which were akin in style and spirit to the contemporary works of Mallet-Steve

Clean, Empty, Geometric, Minimal, Modernist architecture, Monochromatic, Urban