ARCHITECTURE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

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Straddling XIX late and early twentieth century, modernist architecture inspired by organic forms of nature with Antoni Gaudí as a leading figure breaks into an important century in terms of architecture is concerned, in which arise other relevant architectural styles, which are leading architects, Mies Van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ieoh Ming Pei, Toyo Ito, Frank Gehry, Norman Foster and Santiago Calatrava, among others.






Movements such as Modernism, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Organic architecture or the International Style, will give way to more modern styles such as High-tech, Deconstructivism or Postmodernism, in the race for the XXI century. In the late twentieth century due to climate change, the architect and engineer have had to go forefront adapting to changing times by developing a new architectural style called Sustainable Architecture, green, ecological, Eco-tech (Green Technology).

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Valencia Opera House
City of Arts and Sciences
Valencia, Spain
Santiago Calatrava

MAGMA Arte & Congresos
Adeje, Tenerife, Spain
AMP Arquitectos






Tenerife Concert Hall
Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
Canary Island, Spain
Santiago Calatrava

Kingdom Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Ellerbe Becket & Omrania

City Hall
London, United Kingdom
Foster + Partners

Espirito Santo Plaza
Miami, Florida, USA
KPF Kohn Pedersen Fox

Puente de la Mujer
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Santiago Calatrava

Sendai Mediatheque
Sendai, Japan
Toyo Ito & Associates

Milwaukee Art Museum
Wisconsin, USA
Santiago Calatrava

Gateshead Millenium Bridge
Newscastle, England
Wilkinson Eyre Architecs

Winery Ysios
Laguardia, Álava, Spain
Santiago Calatrava

Millenium Bridge
London, United Kingdom
Foster + Partners

Airport Sondica
Bilbao, Spain
Santiago Calatrava

Burj Al Arab
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Tom Willis Wright (Atkins)

Canary Wharf Underground Station
London, United Kingdom
Foster + Partners







City of Arts and Sciences
Valencia, Spain
Santiago Calatrava

Campo Volantin Footbridge
Bilbao, Spain
Santiago Calatrava

Petronas Towers
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Cesar Pelli & Associates

Tuntex Sky Tower
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
C. Y Lee & Partners

Humber River Bridge
Toronto, Canadá
Montgomery & Sisam






Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
Gehry Partners LLP

The Dancing House
Prague, Czech Republic
Gehry Partners LLP

MAC-Museum of Contemporary Art
Niterói, Brasil
Oscar Niemeyer

Erasmus Bridge
Rotterdam, Holland
Ben van Berkel

Fish
Barcelona, Spain
Gehry Partners LLP

Weisman Art Museum
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Frank O. Gehry







Montjuic Communications Tower
Barcelona, Spain
Santiago Calatrava






Puente del Alamillo
Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
Santiago Calatrava

Bank of China Tower
Hong Kong, China
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Barqueta Bridge
Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain
Juan José Arenas de Pablo







Bach de Roda Bridge
Barcelona, Spain
Santiago Calatrava

Miami Tower
Downtown Miami, Florida, USA
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

Fountain Place
Dallas, Texas, USA
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners

The Atlantis Condominiums
Miami, Florida, USA
Arquitectonica

Citicorp Center
Manhattan, New York City, USA
Stubbins Associates;
Emery Roth & Sons










CN Tower
Toronto, Ontario, Canadá
John Andrews & WZMH Architects

Pennzoil Place
Houston, Texas, USA
Philip Johnson/John Burgee

Willis Tower (Sears Tower)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, SOM

The World Trade Center
Manhattan, New York, USA
Minoru Yamasaki & Associates

SNP Bridge-Novy Most
Bratislava, Slovakia
Jozef Lacko

Sydney Opera House
Sydney, Australia
Jorn Utzon










Transamerica Pyramid
San Francisco, California, USA
William L. Pereira & Associates

John Hancock Center
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, SOM

Lake Point Tower
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Schipporeit & Heinrich

The Gateway Arch
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Eero Saarinen

Space Needle
Seattle, Washington, USA
John Graham & Associates

Marina City
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bertrand Goldberg

Torres de Satélite
Ciudad Satélite, Naucalpan, México
Luis Barragán-Mathias Goeritz

Seagram Building
Manhattan, New York City, USA
Mies van der Rohe

Delano Hotel
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Robert Swartburg;
Philippe Starck (Interior)

Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Pennington, South Dakota, USA
Gutzon Borglum







Fallingwater
Pennsylvania, USA
Frank LLoyd Wright

The Endless Column
Târgu Jiu, Romania
Constantin Brancusi

Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco, California, USA
Joseph B. Strauss & others

American International Building
Manhattan, New York City
Clinton and Russell; Holton & George

Christ the Redeemer
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Various Artists

Empire State Building
Manhattan, New York City
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates

570 Lexington Avenue
Manhattan, New York
Cross & Cross

Chrysler Building
Manhattan, New York, USA
William van Alen

Woolworth Building
Manhattan, New York City, USA
Cass Gilbert









Casa Milá (La Pedrera)
Barcelona, Spain
Antoni Gaudí

Flatiron Building
Manhattan, New York, USA
Daniel Burnham

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