International Style
Bauhaus-era design movement
International Style is an architectural movement that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by rectilinear forms, open interiors, minimal ornamentation, and extensive use of glass, steel, and concrete.
The style rejected regional traditions in favor of universal design principles—hence "international." Buildings in the International Style emphasize function over decoration: The glass-and-steel tower is pure International Style.
The term was coined for a 1932 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
Major figures include Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius.
- skyscraperVery tall urban building
- glass boxTransparent rigid container
- BauhausInfluential modernist design school
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- simplicityLack of complexity
white walls · reinforced concrete · steel frames · curtain walls · standardization · glass facades · steel and glass · asymmetry · prefabrication · functionalism · modularity · grid system · less is more · flat roofs · form follows function · open floor plans · transparency · rectilinear
- architectureEiffel Tower, buildings, architects, design, thatching
- architecture stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, minimalism, modernism, Modernism
- Design HistoryArt Nouveau, Bauhaus, mid-century modern, Modernism, Postmodernism
- architectural stylesArt Nouveau, Baroque, Bauhaus, brutalist, Byzantine
- design stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, art nouveau, Bauhaus, minimalism
- modern architectureBrutalism, glass facades, green roofs, mid-century modern, curtain walls
International StyleBeaux-Arts
Classical French architectural tradition
Victorian architecture · Gothic Revival · Baroque · Rococo · historicism
International Styleregionalism
Local area favoritism
regional style · local tradition · folk architecture · contextualism · Arts and Crafts movement
International StylePostmodernism
Movement questioning objective truth
style, nation, national, nationalism, international, nationality, nations, interns, internship