Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the built environment by moving away from ornate, historical styles and embracing ...

Ten must-know texts and aesthetic philosophies of the 20th-century European architecture and design movement. By Julia Halperin The Breuer Building (1966) in New York by Marcel Breuer, originally ...

What modern is: introduction -- Space opens up -- Staging modernity: the aesthetics of the future -- A new style of life: artifacts of modernity -- At home in the brave new world -- Buildings like ...

Freeway Park / Lawrence Halprin. Image via Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA - Seattle Municipal Archives, via Wikipedia under CC BY 2.0 This simplicity and minimalism inspired by the clean ...

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”. But as well as ...

Residential architects give shape to our lives in the most intimate of spaces: our homes. The good ones turn our amorphous wants, needs, and habits into corners, cutouts, and curves; the great ones ...