GALLERY Seven

A Modernist House

FIRST POST: October 2000

Major IMAGE UPDATE: DEC 2002

These pictures are the latest incarnation of Our_House, this time styled in the Modernist fashion. During the '30's, '40's and '50's the Modernist Movement in architecture produced many stunning and elegant homes, apartments, commercial and public buildings. Like many of my generation I felt that this vision of the future was THE vision of the future. The works of Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright and others of the Modernist or International Movement made deep impressions on the imagination of our generation. Movies and graphic arts still relie on this school of architecture to invision the "Future."
Remember Dr. Mobius's home in "Forbidden Planet"? StarFleet HQ? the set designs in "The Shape Of Things To Come"? the comic book art of Carmine Infantino? or, in a humorous vein: the Jetson's or the Brady's home?
Even though few purely Modernist buildings were done since those years, many influences of the style crept into commercial and residential architecture. The Moderist open-plan interior can be seen in many homes built in the last three decades of the 20th Century even if the exterior retained a traditional American look. The commercial world has made more use of this style over the decades: been to a mall recently? did somebody say McDonald's?

The gallery below has a few new images done in the last year and some of the older ones re-shuffled. I'm hopeful that there will be a few new ones this month, or, at least, before the end of the year.