Ten need-to-know modernist buildings in North and South America
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 tol...