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These masterpieces of mid-century modern homes<\/strong><\/em> architecture are still influencing home design today \u2014 see if any elements appear in your own home!<\/p>\n Lovell Beach House<\/b> Must know:<\/b>\u00a0The bravado structure also responds to seismic considerations and survived an earthquake five years after completion, one that destroyed a nearby school. Schindler worked for Frank Lloyd Wright previously, and that influence can be found in some details, but with this house, the architect crafted his own personal modern style.<\/p>\n Villa Mairea<\/b> Villa Savoye<\/b> Frederick C. Robie House<\/b> Schr\u00f6der House Gropius House<\/b> Eames House, Case Study House No. 8\u00a0<\/b> Glass House<\/b> SEE ALSO:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>10 Modern Master Bedroom Trends for 2019<\/a><\/p>\n DID YOU LIKE OUR POST? FEEL FREE TO PIN ALL THE IMAGES TO YOUR FAVORITE PINTEREST BOARD OR TO PRINT IT AND USE ON YOUR MOOD BOARD. DON\u2019T FORGET TO FOLLOW US ON\u00a0FACEBOOK<\/a>,\u00a0PINTEREST<\/a>,\u00a0INSTAGRAM<\/a>. SUBSCRIBE HERE AND DON\u2019T MISS A THING!<\/p>\n\n In all of the areas where mid-century style influences design, it\u2019s time to shine the light on architecture, These are some mid-century modern homes for you! This style brings to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[523,3099,2585,3511,2165,2164,1737],"class_list":["post-14575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-midcentury-modern","tag-architect","tag-architecture-inspiration","tag-best-architects","tag-famous-architects","tag-mid-century-architecture","tag-mid-century-modern-homes","tag-mid-century-style"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14575"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14607,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14575\/revisions\/14607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"10](\"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-2.jpg\" "\\"10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-2")
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\n<\/a>Year built:\u00a0<\/b>1926
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Rudolph M. Schindler
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Newport Beach, California
\nVisiting info:<\/b>\u00a0Only rare visits scheduled<\/p>\n![\"10](\"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-5.jpg\" "\\"10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-5")
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\nYear built:<\/b>\u00a01939
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Alvar Aalto
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Noormarkku, Finland
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Must inquire about tours in advance
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Finnish architect Alvar Aalto was given almost total freedom by Harry and Maire Gullichsen for the design of their summer mid-century modern home. Aalto, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s\u00a0Fallingwater, strove for a design that was Finnish but modern. The resulting two-story, L-shaped house is an idiosyncratic design that expresses what British architect Colin St. John Wilson called \u201cthe other tradition of modern architecture,\u201d which placed humanism above ideology.<\/p>\n![\"10](\"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-4.jpg\" "\\"10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-4")
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\nYear built:<\/b>\u00a01931
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Le Corbusier
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Poissy, France
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Individual and group tours available
\nMust know:\u00a0<\/b>This weekend house near Paris for Pierre and Emilie Savoye has become one of mid-century architecture\u2019s key icons, residential or otherwise. It perfectly encapsulates Le Corbusier\u2019s five points that he developed in the 1920s: raising the building on\u00a0pilotis<\/i>(slender columns), a free facade that was independent of the structural system, ribbon windows based on a similar logic, an open floor plan, and a roof garden that regained the ground lost through the building\u2019s occupation of the landscape.<\/p>\n![\"10](\"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-3.jpg\" "\\"10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-3")
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\nYear built:<\/b>\u00a01909
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/b>Chicago
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Guided and group tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0One aspect of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s genius was the need to constantly reinvent himself and his mid-century architecture. The Robie House can be seen as the apotheosis of his Prairie style, which he started to develop in the early 1890s and abandoned in favor of his democratic,\u00a0Usonian\u00a0designs.<\/p>\n![\"10](\"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-1.jpg\" "\\"10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-1")
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\n<\/b>Year built:<\/b>\u00a01924
\n<\/b>Architect:<\/b>\u00a0Gerrit Rietveld
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/b>Utrecht, Netherlands
\nVisiting info:\u00a0<\/b>Audio tours or guided tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0At first glance Gerrit Rietveld\u2019s design for Schr\u00f6der House is like a painting come to life. Traditional ideas of construction and enclosure, outside and inside, don\u2019t appear; in their place are lines, planes and splashes of color.<\/p>\n![\"10](\"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-6.jpg\" "\\"10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-6")
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\nYear built:\u00a0<\/b>1937
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Walter Gropius
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Lincoln, Massachusetts
\nVisiting info:<\/b>\u00a0Self-guided tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Walter Gropius, who had founded the influential Bauhaus School in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1937. He taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in\u00a0Cambridge, Massachusetts, and designed this mid-century style house for his family in nearby Lincoln.<\/p>\n![\"10](\"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-7.jpg\" "\\"10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-7")
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\n<\/a>Year built:<\/b>\u00a01949
\nArchitects:<\/b>\u00a0Charles and Ray Eames
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0Pacific Palisades, California
\nVisiting info:<\/b>\u00a0Reserved self-guided exterior tours only
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Although this house\/studio for designers\u00a0Charles and Ray Eames\u00a0is simply two rectangular volumes made of off-the-shelf steel structures and windows, it is a colorful expression of their design sensibility and a suitable backdrop for their collections and creations. A true mid-century style.<\/p>\n![\"10](\"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-8.jpg\" "\\"10-Mid-Century-Modern-Homes-By-Famous-Architects-To-Inspire-You-8")
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\n<\/a>Year built:<\/b>\u00a01949
\nArchitect:<\/b>\u00a0Philip Johnson
\nLocation:<\/b>\u00a0New Canaan, Connecticut
\nVisiting info:<\/b>\u00a0Individual, private and group tours available
\nMust know:<\/b>\u00a0Philip Johnson was as much, if not more so, a proponent of mid-century architecture styles as a designer of them. He and Henry Russell Hitchcock helped to define what people think mid-cenury architecture is, even to this day. His Glass House, influenced by Mies van der Rohe\u2019s Farnsworth House (next) but completed two years before it, is the first of many structures Johnson designed and built on his New Canaan estate.<\/p>\n
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