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Reader Submissions: Is your house modern?

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Early in the 20th century, architects and builders began experimenting with new new materials and new approaches to housing design, creating bright, streamlined homes with open floor plans and other modern features. Follow the links on this page to see pictures of modern houses submitted by our readers, including Bauhaus houses, International Style houses, Art Moderne houses, Mid-Century Modern houses, Contemporary houses, and houses that reflect a variety of other Modernist ideas. Is your house modern? Use the link below to add your home to this gallery.

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Space-Saving Split-Level Design

The basement houses office space and 3 cars. The house is split over 2.5 floors with the top floor being a home theatre and a terrace space.A private sit-out with hard–scaped exposed brickwork …More

Modern House in Ethiopia

This is a modern G+2 house. Unusual bold planes run from bottom to top of the building and are painted with seasonal colors. The whole volume is designed in such a way that the two colored planes int…More

Mid-Century Modern Military Housing

Large rooms are the best feature. It is very well insulated, the outside is covered with a brick-type siding. The underside of the bricks is an expanded metal material, not unlike the screens on some…More

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