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The #ModernismProject Challenge: #ModernismAcrossTheGlobe. The #ModernismProject is back this year with new themes, new judges, and more chances to win tickets to Modernism Week! For those of you who are new around here, it’s a mobile initiative encouraging the Modernism Week community to get involved and capture modernism in everyday life through the photo lens. Starting in October through January, participants will have the opportunity every few weeks to win tickets to Modernism Week events or prizes by simply snapping a photo and showing their own personal perspective on modernism. We have partnered with Modernism Week to jury this week’s challenge: #modernismacrosstheglobe. For us, modernism was a utopian movement that emerged at a point when the world was at a crossroads; modernist architects took up the call to action, optimistically applying universal solutions in their works that they hoped would improve society as a whole.

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Marcel Breuer. Rudolf Schindler. Robert Mallet Stevens. Pierre Chareau. Eileen Gray. Alvar Aalto. Alison e Peter Smithson. Tadao Ando. Richard Meier. Richard Rogers. Mies Van der Rohe. Oscar Niemeyer. Philip Johnson. Frank Lloyd Wright. Organic. De Stijl. Bauhaus. László Hudec. Gerrit Rietveld. Peter Behrens. Walter Gropius. Louis Kahn. Otto Wagner. John Lautner. Le Corbusier. Oath of Modernism. I, modernism, being of sound mind and having a firm understanding of what should be, do solemnly swear to ignore the needs of poor people and democrats.

I, modernism, will not knowingly or unintentionally promote the excessive ornamentation favored by the nostalgic and simple-minded. I, modernism will remain pure, and separate, loosening my tie, only after a few drinks, or when feeling comfortable, or under the influence of a potential high-profile client. I, modernism, will connect to the past, only as required to secure planning commission approval. I, modernism, will be new…. again. I, modernism, will embody the aspirations of the elite, assuming they continue to finance my efforts. I, modernism, will reflect the truth, as I have defined it. I, modernism, will seem straight-forward, imply clarity, promise simplicity, and take a long time to acquire. I, modernism, will be better than that which is not modernism. I, modernism, will be costly in my attempts to be cost-effective. Soviet Modernism 1955-1991: Unknown Stories.

‘Soviet Modernism 1955 – 1991. Unknown Stories’ explores, for the first time comprehensively, the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics completed between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR in 1991. The research and exhibition project shifts the Russian-dominated perspective and focuses attention on the architecture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Krygyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, The Ukraine and Uzbekistan. More information after the break… While Constructivism and Stalinist architecture have largely been included in Western architecture history, the Soviet modern architecture of the second half of the 20th century has remained practically unknown to date. Working in close collaboration with local experts and architects, a research group at the Architekturzentrum Wien has pursued the specialities in the architecture of the period and its ‘stories’.

Text and images via The Architekturzentrum Wien. A Built History of Modernism. At just a little over 50 years old, the University of California San Diego is one of the younger college campuses in the United States, but despite this it is one of the most architecturally fascinating universities around. In the official UCSD campus guide, Dirk Sutro emphasizes that “UCSD does not have a single example of the historical-revival styles prevalent at other University of California campuses… and at San Diego’s two other major universities”.

The history of UCSD architecture is one of ambition, which has made the campus a display case of modernism in all of its forms from the last half a century. Thanks to photographer Darren Bradley, we can now share this history and a selection of the exciting structures it has produced. Find out more about the UCSD campus after the break UCSD has its roots in the 1950s, when the City of San Diego offered a large section of land to the University of California. The original master plan for the campus was designed by Robert Alexander. Modernist LA brought to life in online exhibition | Art | Agenda | Phaidon. For reasons best known to themselves California-phobes often say Los Angeles can be a vapid city, lacking the cultural depth of London, Paris or New York. Yet its fans (among whom phaidon.com firmly counts itself, never failing to have the absolute time of our lives every time we visit) point to LA's dispersed, inchoate character as something inherently modern, without the tight streets and clutter of an old-world city.

Shopping Bag Market, year unknown by Doug White This peculiar modernity is pulled into focus in a new online exhibition, which edits and showcases an incredible archive of photographic material shot in the city during the last century. Wilco Gas and Sieberling Tire Store, 1954, by Joseph Falder People Living in An All Electric Home, 1955 by Joseph Falder These shots were taken by photographers employed by Southern California Edison, LA's main electrical power suppler during the 20th century, to promote its work in electrifying the city.

The show is sponsored by The J.

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