Akron Art Museum
Coop Himmelb(l)au · 1922
Ohio, United States
Port Authority Building (Antwerp)
Zaha Hadid · 1922
Antwerp, Belgium
Cleveland Clinic
Norman Foster · 1921
Cleveland, United States
Hebrew College
Moshe Safdie · 1921
Newton, United States
Morgan Library & Museum
Renzo Piano · 1924
Manhattan, United States
Yokohama International School
Kengo Kuma · 1924
Yokohama, Japan
Pasadena Playhouse
Frank Gehry · 1925
Pasadena, United States
Walker Art Center
Herzog & de Meuron · 1927
Minneapolis, United States

Overture Center for the Arts
César Pelli · 1928
Madison, United States
Kaminoge Station
Tadao Ando · 1929
Setagaya, Japan
Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater
1920
Kyiv, Ukraine
Karpacz train station
1925
Karpacz, Poland

Aloha Tower
1926
Honolulu County, United States
Warsaw Zoo
Wenanty Burdziński · 1928
Praga-Północ, Poland
Workplace and House Exhibition
1929
Wrocław, Poland
Einstein Tower
Erich Mendelsohn · 1920
Potsdam-Süd, Germany
Cranbrook Educational Community
Eero Saarinen · 1922
Bloomfield Hills, United States
Tagblatt-Turm
Erich Mendelsohn · 1924
Stuttgart-Mitte, Germany
Bell Labs
Eero Saarinen · 1925
Frequently Asked Questions
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The most active countries for notable architecture in the 1920s were United States, Belgium, Japan, Ukraine, Poland.