modernist architecture
Form follows function
Modernist architecture is a building style that emerged in the early twentieth century, emphasizing function over ornamentation.
It favors clean lines, open floor plans, industrial materials like steel, glass, and concrete, and rejection of historical decorative elements.
The style aimed to break with tradition and express modern life through form: The Bauhaus school pioneered modernist architecture.
Key figures include Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- form follows functionDesign shaped by purpose
- MinimalismArt stripped to essentials
- SteelStrong-sounding proper name
- BrasíliaBrazil's purpose-built capital
free plan · Brutalism · concrete jungle · cantilever · Bauhaus · International Style · Fallingwater · brise-soleil · Frank Lloyd Wright · less is more · glass box · wright · open plan · stark · glass · skyscraper · streamlined · utopian
- GaudíSagrada Familia, Barcelona, Catalonia, organic forms, paraboloid
- modernismPicasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Braque, Kandinsky
- 20th Century ItalyMussolini, fascism, neorealism, economic miracle, Christian Democrats
- Italian ArtRenaissance art, Futurism, Mannerism, High Renaissance, Roman mosaics
- Nordic ArtScandinavian design, Munch, The Scream, Viking ships, runestones
- BrasiliaBrasilia, TV Tower
modernist architectureVictorian architecture
Ornate 1800s building style
Gothic architecture · Gothic Revival · Renaissance architecture · Tudor architecture · neoclassical architecture
modernist architecturetraditional architecture
Regionally rooted building styles
heritage architecture · classical revival · folk architecture