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What drove the development of Modern architecture according to some historians?
What drove the development of Modern architecture according to some historians?
Technological and engineering developments
How do some historians view the evolution of modern architecture?
How do some historians view the evolution of modern architecture?
Some historians see it as a social matter, closely tied to the project of Modernity and thus the Enlightenment. Modern architecture developed as a result of social and political revolutions.
Who are the notable architects important to the history and development of the modernist movement?
Who are the notable architects important to the history and development of the modernist movement?
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Gerrit Rietveld, Bruno Taut, Arne Jacobsen, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvar Aalto
How do other historians regard Modernism?
How do other historians regard Modernism?
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What are the multiple lenses through which the evolution of modern architecture may be viewed?
What are the multiple lenses through which the evolution of modern architecture may be viewed?
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Match the following architects with their association to the modernist movement:
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Study Notes
- Modernism: philosophical movement arising from late 19th-century Western societal transformations, aiming to reconcile architecture with technological advancement and modernization.
- Duration: Late 19th-early 20th century
- Key architects: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Erich Mendelsohn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Gerrit Rietveld, Bruno Taut, Arne Jacobsen, Oscar Niemeyer, Alvar Aalto
- Focus: Reconciling architectural principles with technological advancement and societal modernization
- Influenced by: Rapid technological change, the Enlightenment, social and political revolutions, and a reaction against eclecticism and Victorian/Edwardian architectural excesses
Postmodernism:
- Duration: Late 20th-21st century
- Characterized by: Replacement of modernist functional and formalized shapes and spaces with diverse aesthetics
- Major concepts: Pluralism, double coding, flying buttresses and high ceilings, irony and paradox, contextualism
- Reaction against: Modernist principles of form following function and the perceived lack of meaning in modernist architecture
- Critics: Saw modernist architecture as a matter of taste, a reaction against the excessive stylistic eclecticism of Victorian and Edwardian architecture.
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Test your knowledge of modernist and postmodernist architecture with this quiz. Explore the differences between the two architectural movements, their characteristics, and historical context.
