TIMELINE – MODERN ARCHITECTURE 

 

Selections for a Context for Going Modern 

 

1907-8 Gamble House, Pasadena CA., Green and Green 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright choose pre –WW II examples 

 

1923-24- Maison La Roche/Jeanneret, Paris. Le Corbusier 

 

 

 

Bauhaus 

 

1926-8  - Villa Stein/deMonzie, Garches, Le Corbusier 

 

1926-9 – E1027, (for herself and JanBadovici), Cap Martin, Roquebrune, Eileen Gray  

 

1934-37- Fallingwater, for Edgar J. Kaufman, Bear Run, Pennsylvania. Frank Lloyd Wright 

 

1936- House at Angimiring, England. Marcel Breuer 

 

1939- Breuer House I, Lincoln Massachusetts. Marcel Breuer 

 

1938- Gropius house, Lincoln Massachusetts. Walter Gropius 

 

1946- Edgar J. Kaufman Desert House, Palm Springs, California.  Richard Neutra 

 

 

 

War Housing Studies (194X projects) 

 

1945-51 Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 

 

1947- Breuer House II, new Caanan, Connecticut. Marcel Breuer 

 

1949-50 Glass House, New Caanan Connecticut. Philip Johnson 

 

1945-49 Eames House, Santa Monica, California. Charles Eames 

 

 

 

F.L. Wright choose post WW II examples 

 

1950 – Bavinger House, Norman OK., Bruce Goff 

 

1951-4 Maison Jaoul, Neuilly sur Seine, Paris. Le Corbusier 

 

1950s – Eichler Houses, Los Angeles, San Rafael and     California, Anchen and Allen 

 

1958-62 Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Robert Venturi 

 

 

The New York Five (Peter Eisenman, Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, JohnHejduk and Michael Graves)   

 

1974-6 - House for Academical Couple, Connecticut, Robert Stern