At his book launch at New York’s Center for Architecture, Kenneth Frampton admitted that he had not visited all of the 14 pairs of building analyzed in A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative ...
Borrowing elements from Art Deco and French Art Nouveau, the Art Moderne style began in America in the 1930s and was highly influential for a period of about 10 years. Art Moderne was a response to ...
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 ...
“Are You Illiterate About Modern Architecture?” by Peter Blake, was originally published in the September 1961 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia ...
Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective ...
From festivals to schools, cathedrals, and bomb sites: The story of mid-century modernism in Britain
The National Provincial Bank in Plymouth, Southwest England, completed in 1959 and designed by the bank’s architecture department with BC Sherren serving as chief architect. (Courtesy Elain Harwood) ...
Part I. Cultural developments and predisposing techniques 1750-1939 : Cultural transformations: Neo-Classical architecture 1750-1900 -- Territorial transformations: urban developments 1800-1909 -- ...
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