Impressive buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, IM Pei and Eero Saarinen are among writer and author Sam Lubell's highlights of modernist architecture sites to visit along the Eastern Seaboard.
Although not as renowned for its modernism as the Pacific Coast, the other side of the USA provided an equally important testing ground for the style during the mid-20th century.
From modest private houses to vast education campuses, important examples of modern architecture sprung up from New England to Florida during this period.
Clusters can be found New York's Fire Island and university towns across the region, while other one-offs appear in unexpected places.

Lubell gathers the best of these in his new book, Mid-Century Modern Travel Guide: East Coast USA, published by Phaidon and following a similar compendium he created for the West Coast. He then whittled down over 250 entries to just 10 of his highlights, which span a range of locations and typologies, for Dezeen.
See Lubell's choices and descriptions of each project below:

Phillips Exeter Academy Library by Louis Kahn, Exeter, New Hampshire
Perhaps no space better exemplifies Louis Kahn's masterful exploitation of mass, scale, surface, and emotion than his Phillips Exeter Academy Library. Hiding behind a regimented brick façade is the building's enormous, seventy-foot-tall atrium, lit by upper clerestories and encircled by book-filled balconies. These are framed by gigantic concrete walls, cut with massive circl...