modernist buildings
Twentieth-century architectural style
Modernist buildings are structures designed according to the architectural principles that dominated from roughly the 1920s through the 1970s—emphasizing function over ornament, clean geometric lines, open floor plans, and materials like steel, glass, and concrete left visible rather than decorated.
The downtown skyline is dominated by modernist buildings from the postwar era.
The style rejected historical ornamentation in favor of the idea that a building's form should follow its function.
- International StyleFunctionalist architecture movement, 1920s
- steel frameMetal structural support system
- BrutalismRaw concrete architectural movement
- concrete jungleDense cityscape, few parks
- free planUnpaid service level
Fallingwater · Bauhaus · form follows function · Minimalism · Sydney Opera House · Frank Lloyd Wright · Functionalism · flat roof · roof terrace · open floor plan · geometric shapes · Brasília
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1800s ornamental structures
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