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August 5, 2016

Retro Architecture Has Never Looked This Zen

By Danielle Cohen

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Photo: Julius Shulman

Throughout his 70-year career, the late architectural photographer Julius Shulman captured a mid-century modern time capsule of sun-soaked luxury, laid-back SoCal ethos, and sleek retro architecture. Photographing the post-war movement’s flat planes and open-concept designs (including works by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer), he focused on expansive glass walls, multileveled spaces, and the integration of indoors and outdoors.

Each shot plays on the architecture’s openness, with steady composition and dramatic lighting and shadows. Some buildings tower above densely populated areas (like Gordon Bunshaft’s Lever House in New York); others stand solitary in grassy fields (Herb Greene’s Oklahoma “Prarie Chicken” house).

The book Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered, out August 25 from Taschen, compiles three volumes of Shulman’s photographs (a new edition of a 2009 set), featuring over 400 international architectural works from Hong Kong to Mexico, California to New York.

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Frey residence by Albert Frey, Palm Springs, California, 1956. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Roberts Residence by Weston, Byles, & Rudolph, Malibu, California, 1953. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Mathias Goeritz at his home, which was co-designed with Ricardo Legorreta, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1973. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
The Lever House by Gordon Bunshaft (viewed through the colonnade of Philip Johnson's Seagram Building), New York, 1959. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. ... The Lever House by Gordon Bunshaft (viewed through the colonnade of Philip Johnson's Seagram Building), New York, 1959. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
North Shore Yacht Club by Frey & Chambers, Salton Sea, California, 1960. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
British Overseas Airline Company by Risley & Gould, Beverly Hills, 1961. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Greene Residence (a.k.a the "Prairie Chicken" House) by Herb Greene, Norman, Oklahoma, 1961. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Lake Shore Drive Apartments by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Chicago, 1963. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Lake Shore Drive Apartments by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Chicago, 1963. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Greenberg Residence by Buff & Hensman, Palos Verdes, California, 1966. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Spring Hotel, Bequia, by Crites & McConnell, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1967. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Volume 1. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Volume 2. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Volume 3. Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
Photo: Julius Shulman. © J. Paul Getty Trust
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