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Encyclopedia > 1949 in architecture

See also: 1948 in architecture, other events of 1949, 1950 in architecture and the architecture timeline.


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Architecture of the World - Twentieth Century, from 1900 to 1949 - Great Buildings Online (2830 words)
Eames House, by Charles Eames, at Pacific Palisades, California, 1945 to 1949.
Hill House, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, at Helensburgh, Scotland, 1902 to 1903.
Ralph Johnson House, by Harwell Hamilton Harris, at Los Angeles, California, 1949 to 1951.
Flickr: 1949 >>> Architecture in New China (332 words)
Since the Communists swept to power in 1949, the austere and utilitarian ethics of modernism and international socialism combined to give Chinese cities an altogether different flavour.
To a certain extent, this trend still prevails today in much of China, though economic liberalisation and the influx of foreign capital to the bigger cities has lead to soaring skylines of glass and steel that match anywhere in the world.
Any shot which clearly showcases architectural details, whole buildings and urban space, as long it was built in the years after 1949.
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