Editing Modern architecture (section)

==American modernism (1919–1939)==
{{Main|Frank Lloyd Wright|Rudolph Schindler (architect)|Richard Neutra}}
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File:Ennis House front view 2005.jpg|[[Ennis House]] in Los Angeles, by Frank Lloyd Wright (1924)
File:Fallingwater - DSC05643.JPG|[[Fallingwater]] by Frank Lloyd Wright (1928–34)
File:Lovell Beach House 02.jpg|[[Lovell Beach House]] in [[Newport Beach]] by [[Rudolph Schindler (architect)|Rudolph Schindler]] (1926)
File:Lovell House 2.jpg|[[Lovell House|Lovell Health House]] in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, by [[Richard Neutra]] (1927–29)
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During the 1920s and 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright resolutely refused to associate himself with any architectural movements. He considered his architecture to be entirely unique and his own. Between 1916 and 1922, he broke away from his earlier prairie house style and worked instead on houses decorated with textured blocks of cement; this became known as his "Mayan style", after the pyramids of the ancient Mayan civilization. He experimented for a time with modular mass-produced housing. He identified his architecture as "Usonian", a combination of USA, "utopian" and "organic social order". His business was severely affected by the beginning of the [[Great Depression]] that began in 1929; he had fewer wealthy clients who wanted to experiment. Between 1928 and 1935, he built only two buildings: a hotel near [[Chandler, Arizona]], and the most famous of all his residences, [[Fallingwater]] (1934–37), a vacation house in Pennsylvania for Edgar J. Kaufman. Fallingwater is a remarkable structure of concrete slabs suspended over a waterfall, perfectly uniting architecture and nature.{{Sfn|Bony|2012|page=99}}

The Austrian architect [[Rudolph Schindler (architect)|Rudolph Schindler]] designed what could be called the first house in the modern style in 1922, the Schindler house. 
Schindler also contributed to American modernism with his design for the [[Lovell Beach House]] in [[Newport Beach]]. The Austrian architect [[Richard Neutra]] moved to the United States in 1923, worked for a short time with Frank Lloyd Wright, also quickly became a force in American architecture through his modernist design for the same client, the [[Lovell House|Lovell Health House]] in Los Angeles. Neutra's most notable architectural work was the [[Kaufmann Desert House]] in 1946, and he designed hundreds of further projects.<ref>Ho, Vivien (21 October 2020) [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/21/kaufmann-desert-house-slim-aarons-sale Modernist architectural marvel made famous by Slim Aarons for sale for $25m]. Retrieved 23 October 2020</ref>