Alvar Aalto ↗
Finnish architect and designer whose modernism engaged with materials, landscape and human experience.
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Architects
Antoni Gaudí ↗
The Catalan architect whose expressive buildings became central to Barcelona's architectural identity.
Frank Lloyd Wright ↗
An American architect whose work connected spatial design, daily life and the surrounding landscape.
Hector Guimard ↗
French architect of the Paris Métro entrances and Castel Béranger, whose work ranged from Art Nouveau interiors to prefabricated housing.
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Movement Art Nouveau ↗
Le Corbusier ↗
Swiss-born architect and theorist whose built works and writings reshaped modern architecture.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ↗
German-born modernist architect associated with structural clarity, expressive materials and the Barcelona Pavilion.
Victor Horta ↗
Belgian architect whose Brussels townhouses helped define Art Nouveau architecture.
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Buildings
Barcelona Pavilion ↗
The German Pavilion of 1929, designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich and reconstructed in 1986.
Casa Batlló ↗
A Barcelona residence transformed by Antoni Gaudí into an integrated architectural composition.
Fallingwater ↗
Frank Lloyd Wright's Pennsylvania house, built over a waterfall for the Kaufmann family.
Hôtel Tassel ↗
Victor Horta's 1893 Brussels townhouse, an early and influential Art Nouveau landmark.
Sagrada Família ↗
Barcelona's monumental basilica, shaped by Antoni Gaudí and generations of subsequent builders.
Villa Mairea ↗
Aalto's experimental 1938–39 Finnish residence combining modern form, craft and landscape.
Villa Savoye ↗
Le Corbusier's house at Poissy: an architectural manifesto with a complicated practical history.
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Styles & Movements
Art Nouveau ↗
A late-nineteenth-century international movement connecting architecture, decoration, craft and new materials.
Catalan Modernisme ↗
A cultural and architectural movement that reshaped Barcelona around the turn of the twentieth century.
Modernism ↗
A broad family of architectural experiments in new forms, materials and ways of living.
Organic Architecture ↗
An approach to design that seeks an integrated relationship between buildings, occupants and their setting.
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