Title: Modern architecture - Wikipedia
Headings: Modern architecture
Modern architecture
Contents
Origins
Main article: Modernism
Early modernism in Europe (1900–1914)
Early American modernism (1890s–1914)
Early skyscrapers
Rise of modernism in Europe and Russia (1918–1931)
International Style (1920s–1970s)
Bauhaus and the German Werkbund (1919–1933)
Expressionist architecture (1918–1931)
Constructivist architecture (1919–1931)
Modernism becomes a movement: CIAM (1928)
Art Deco
American Art Deco; the skyscraper style (1919–1939)
Streamline style and Public Works Administration (1933–1939)
American modernism (1919–1939)
Paris International Exposition of 1937 and the architecture of dictators
New York World's Fair (1939)
World War II: wartime innovation and postwar reconstruction (1939–1945)
Le Corbusier and the Cité Radieuse (1947–1952)
Team X and the 1953 International Congress of Modern Architecture
Postwar modernism in the United States (1945–1985)
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim Museum
Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Richard Neutra and Charles & Ray Eames
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Wallace K. Harrison
Philip Johnson
Eero Saarinen
Louis Kahn
I. M. Pei
Fazlur Rahman Khan
Minoru Yamasaki
Postwar modernism in Europe (1945–1975)
Latin America
Asia and the Pacific
Africa
Preservation
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

Content: Center: Palácio do Planalto, Brasilia, by Oscar Niemeyer (1960); Fagus Factory, Germany, by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer (1911–1913): Bottom: Fallingwater, Pennsylvania, by Frank Lloyd Wright (1935); Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, by Jørn Utzon (1973)
Years active
1920–2000
Country
International
Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function ( functionalism ); an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament. It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by postmodern architecture.