"A lot of people locally conceive of this as a moment of blight in Boston, whereas the map positions it as the moment deserving of international recognition."
Nonprofit organisation USModernist documents, promotes and preserves North America s modernist architecture. Here, director George Smart names his ten favourites including an airport terminal by Eero Saarinen and a beach house by John Lautner.
Based in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, USModernist has been working since 2007 to document modernist buildings, some of which are under threat, across the continent.
Top: A house by Alber Frey in Palm Springs. Above: George Smart is the founder of USModernist Just like stock car racing or sushi, modernist architecture is not for everybody, Smart told Dezeen. There are some people that just don t like it, and that s fine, he explained. The important thing is that, because there are so few of them, that we recognise that many of these houses are really sculptures that you can live in .
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