modernism in architecture is found in the work of frank lloyd wright, le corbusier, walter gropius the founder of bauhaus, and mies van der rohe. le corbusier's famous remark "a building is a machine for living in" shows how different his thinking was to architects of the 19th century. the skyscraper, such as mies van der rohe's seagram building in new york (1956–1958), became the archetypal modernist building.