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architecture/West Hollywood, USA
Schindler House
Rudolph Schindler's 1922 experiment in living — a house built from concrete, glass, and canvas that dissolved the boundary between indoor and outdoor life in West Hollywood.
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architecture/Paris, France
Villa La Roche
Le Corbusier's 1925 manifesto in built form — a house designed as a promenade architecturale, where movement through space is the architecture itself.
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architecture/Poissy, France
Villa Savoye
Le Corbusier's white box in the fields of Poissy — the building that codified modern architecture's five points and turned a weekend house into a manifesto.
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architecture/Kyoto, Japan
Katsura Imperial Villa
A seventeenth-century villa and garden in Kyoto that taught modern architecture everything it thought it invented — modular space, fluid plan, the dissolution of wall and landscape.
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