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Savoye House, Poissy, Fr., an International Style residence by Le Corbusier, 1929–30
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Date c. 1920 - c. 1970
Related Artists Le Corbusier • Frank Lloyd Wright • Walter Gropius • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe • Richard Meier • Philip Johnson • Juan O’Gorman • Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud • Marcel Breuer • Richard Joseph Neutra • Gordon Bunshaft • William Lescaze • Sven Markelius

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Esplanade Apartments and Lake Shore Drive Apartments
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson: Seagram Building
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
Le Corbusier: Villa Savoye
Walter Gropius
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Bauhaus school by Walter Gropius
Philip Johnson: Glass House
Michael Graves: Portland Public Service Building
The Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago, designed by Mies van der Rohe; photographed in 1955
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