25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture
The goal of the list is to compile the 25 most significant buildings built after World War II.
Architects Toshiko Mori, Annabelle Selldorf and Vincent Van Duysen, designer Tom Dixon, artist and set designer Es Devlin, critic and contributor to the New York Times Nikil Saval and Tom Delavan, director design & interiors for the NYT, made the final selection during an online debate. Prior to the meeting, the New York Times asked each of the panelists to nominate 10 submissions.
Beginning with his own house in 1960, the Flemish architect Juliaan Lampens applied the brutalistic esthetic to intimate residential projects. The most influential of these projects was Van Wassenhove House, built for a bachelor in Sint-Martens-Latem, near Ghent.
