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- Archpedia - Brian Nank's guide to world-famous architects of the Modern Movement. For each he gives a photograph, biography and list of works, with selected images. Also architectural news, glossary, quizzes and bookstore.
www.archpedia.com
- Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement - Aims to record and preserve the works of the Modern Movement. Activities: bi-annual international conferences, journal, compilation of national registers (not on-line).
www.bk.tudelft.nl/docomomo
- From Here To Modernity - The story of the Modern Movement and its affect on Britain, to complement a BBC2/ Open University TV series. History, architect's profiles, images, dates and descriptions of key buildings.
www.open2.net/modernity
- Functionalism and the City of Viipuri - A study by E.T. Dankwa of the 1930s Modernist architecture in the then-Finnish city of Viipuri, featuring works like Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Municipal Library.
www.greatgridlock.net/Viipuri/viipuri.html
- I. G. Farben Building - Chip Chapin's photographs and history of the complex built l928-31 for Farben to the Bauhaus design of Hans Poelzig. Now part of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
www.angelfire.com/ny/IGFarben/index.html
- Modcom - The Modern Committee is a Los Angeles-based volunteer group formed in response to the rapid destruction of post-WWII buildings. Includes listings of endangered and destroyed Modern buildings in southern California.
www.modcom.org
- Pierre Chareau: Maison de Verre - Images and enthusiastic student's description of Pierre Chareau's Maison de Verre, Paris, France (1932), a landmark of the International Style.
hometown.aol.com/hazeej/chareau.html
- The Bauhaus - An illustrated history by Greg Flores of the new art school formed in Post World War One Germany, with bibliography.
www2.ucsc.edu/people/gflores/bauhaus/b1.html
- The Canberra House - A history of modernist residential architecture in Australia's capital. House profiles, architect biographies, essays on styles and a history of Canberra.
www.canberrahouse.com.au
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