International Style

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architectural style modernist architecture movement

International Style is a modernist architectural movement characterized by functional design, minimal ornamentation, and the use of glass, steel, and concrete in simple geometric forms.

Aliases (10)

International Style architecture ×11
De Stijl ×1
Five Points of Architecture ×1
International Style architects ×1
International Style in architecture ×1
International Style modernism ×1
International Style orthodoxy ×1
International Style residential architecture ×1
The International Style ×1
The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architectural style → modernist architecture movement →
aimsFor	absence of regional ornament → universality of form →
associatedWith	Henry-Russell Hitchcock → Le Corbusier → Ludwig Mies van der Rohe → Philip Johnson → Walter Gropius →
contrastsWith	Art Deco → Beaux-Arts architecture → traditional historicist styles →
emergedInPeriod	1920s → 1930s →
emphasizes	expression of structure → industrial materials → lack of applied decoration → open floor plans → regularity of form → volume over mass →
exhibitionHeldAt	Museum of Modern Art, New York City →
exhibitionYear	1932 →
geographicSpread	Europe → Latin America → Middle East → North America →
hasCharacteristic	functional design → minimal ornamentation → simple geometric forms →
hasDesignFeature	curtain wall facades → flat roof → free façade → free floor plan → pilotis (supporting columns) → ribbon windows →
influencedBy	Bauhaus → De Stijl → modernism →
movementIn	architecture →
peakPopularity	mid-20th century →
popularizedByExhibition	Modern Architecture: International Exhibition →
popularizedByPublication	The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 →
relatedConcept	Internationalism in architecture →
typicalBuildingType	apartment block → institutional building → office building → skyscraper →
usesMaterial	glass → reinforced concrete → steel →

Referenced by (99)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
2 Broadway → 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments → Bauhaus Dessau building → CBS Building → Cité Frugès de Pessac → Coleman A. Young Municipal Center → Crown Hall → Dirksen Federal Building → Emery Roth & Sons → Erastus Corning Tower → Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse → Federal Center Plaza → Ford Motor Company headquarters → General Assembly Hall → General Motors Technical Center → Glass House → Gordon Bunshaft → Gropius House → Immeuble Clarté → Immeuble locatif à la Porte Molitor → John Graham & Company → Kresge Auditorium at MIT → Lever House → Memorial Coliseum → Miller House and Garden → Miller House, Columbus, Indiana ("International Style modernism") → Musée National des Beaux-Arts de l’Occident → Neue Nationalgalerie → One Prudential Plaza → Pan Am Building → Petite villa au bord du lac Léman (Villa ‘Le Lac’) → Port Authority Bus Terminal → Rothesay Pavilion → Rothschild Boulevard → Seagram Building → Skidmore, Owings & Merrill → Socony–Mobil Building → Starrett-Lehigh Building → Time-Life Building → Time-Life Building at Rockefeller Center → United Nations Headquarters → Usine Claude et Duval → Villa La Roche → Willis Tower →	architecturalStyle
Barcelona Pavilion ("International Style architecture") → Bauhaus movement → Chicago School architecture → De Stijl ("International Style architecture") → Deutscher Werkbund ("International Style architecture") → Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ("International Style architecture") → Marcel Breuer ("International Style architecture") → Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau ("International Style architecture") → Russian Constructivism ("International Style architecture") → Vers une architecture → Villa Savoye ("International Style residential architecture") → Walter Gropius ("International Style architects") →	influenced
Charlotte Perriand → Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne → James Ingo Freed → Josep Lluís Sert → La Sarraz Congress → Le Corbusier → Ludwig Mies van der Rohe → Maria Ludwig Michael Mies → Philip Johnson → Sigfried Giedion → Wallace Harrison → Walter Gropius →	movement
Barcelona Pavilion → Farnsworth House → LC4 chaise longue → Lafayette Park, Detroit → Maison Curutchet → Maison Guiette → Villa Savoye → Villa Tugendhat → Welton Becket →	style
International Style ("De Stijl") → Manhattan skyline ("International Style architecture") → Postmodern architecture → Richard Meier →	influencedBy
Pierre Savoye → Raoul La Roche →	villaArchitecturalStyle
Le Corbusier ("Five Points of Architecture") →	architecturalConcept
Savoye family →	architecturalMovementSupported
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition →	associatedWithConcept
CBS Building →	designInfluencedBy
Gordon Bunshaft ("International Style architecture") →	genre
The White City →	hasArchitecturalStyle
Modern architecture →	hasMovement
LC2 Petit Modèle →	hasStyle
Rothschild Boulevard ("International Style architecture") →	knownFor
Bauhaus ("International Style architecture") →	legacy
Henry-Russell Hitchcock ("The International Style") →	notableWork
International Style ("The International Style: Architecture Since 1922") →	popularizedByPublication
Postmodern architecture ("International Style orthodoxy") →	reactionAgainst
New Formalism →	relatedMovement
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition ("International Style in architecture") →	subject
Brutalism →	wasInfluencedBy