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Art Nouveau · 1890-1910

When steel, glass, concrete, and mass cities arrive, should architecture still imitate history?

Steel, glass, concrete, railways, and urban expansion change the architectural problem and prepare modernism.

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World wars, housing crises, and international exchange turn modernism from scattered experiment into a global institutional language.

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Organic Architecture

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Frank Lloyd Wright

1867–1959

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Robie House

1910 · 芝加哥

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Frank Lloyd Wright

1867–1959 · 现代主义大师

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Robie House

弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特

Robie House

United States · 1910