Modern architecture

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architectural style cultural movement

Modern architecture is a 20th-century architectural style characterized by minimal ornamentation, functional design, and the use of new materials and construction technologies such as steel, glass, and reinforced concrete.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Modernist architecture	14
Modern architecture canonical	13
Modernism in architecture	8
Modern Movement in architecture	3
High-tech architecture	1
Late Modern architecture	1
Mid-century modern architecture	1
Modern Architecture: Romanticism and Reintegration	1
Moderne Architektur (Modern Architecture)	1
functionalism (architecture)	1

Statements (82)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architectural style ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ
appliedTo	civic buildings ⓘ educational buildings ⓘ industrial buildings ⓘ office buildings ⓘ residential buildings ⓘ
developedFrom	19th-century engineering architecture ⓘ rationalist architecture ⓘ
emergedInCentury	20th century ⓘ
followedBy	Deconstructivism ⓘ Postmodern architecture ⓘ
geographicScope	global ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Modernist architecture ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	asymmetrical compositions ⓘ emphasis on volume over mass ⓘ expression of structure ⓘ functional design ⓘ minimal ornamentation ⓘ open floor plans ⓘ rejection of historical styles ⓘ use of clean lines ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	contemporary architecture ⓘ high-tech architecture ⓘ minimalist architecture ⓘ sustainable architecture ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Alison and Peter Smithson ⓘ Alvar Aalto ⓘ Erich Mendelsohn ⓘ Frank Lloyd Wright ⓘ Gerrit Rietveld ⓘ J. J. P. Oud ⓘ surface form: J.J.P. Oud Kenzo Tange ⓘ Le Corbusier ⓘ Louis Kahn ⓘ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ⓘ Oscar Niemeyer ⓘ Philip Johnson ⓘ Richard Neutra ⓘ Walter Gropius ⓘ
hasMotto	form follows function ⓘ
hasMovement	Bauhaus movement ⓘ surface form: Bauhaus architecture Brutalism ⓘ Expressionism ⓘ surface form: Expressionist architecture International Style ⓘ Organic architecture ⓘ
hasNotableWork	Barcelona Pavilion ⓘ Bauhaus Dessau building ⓘ Brasília civic buildings ⓘ Fallingwater ⓘ Seagram Building ⓘ United Nations Headquarters ⓘ surface form: UN Headquarters Villa Savoye ⓘ
hasPeriod	early modernism ⓘ high modernism ⓘ late modernism ⓘ
hasPrinciple	functional zoning of space ⓘ honest expression of materials ⓘ integration of structure and form ⓘ mass production of building components ⓘ reduction of ornament ⓘ standardization of building elements ⓘ universal design language ⓘ use of new technologies ⓘ
influencedBy	Arts and Crafts movement ⓘ Bauhaus ⓘ Constructivism ⓘ De Stijl ⓘ Industrial Revolution ⓘ Modernism ⓘ advances in engineering ⓘ new construction technologies ⓘ
opposedTo	Beaux-Arts architecture ⓘ eclecticism in architecture ⓘ historicist architecture ⓘ
usesMaterial	glass ⓘ industrial materials ⓘ reinforced concrete ⓘ steel ⓘ
usesTechnology	curtain wall construction ⓘ reinforced concrete frame ⓘ steel frame construction ⓘ

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Philip Johnson → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Art Nouveau → followedBy → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Norman Foster → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: High-tech architecture

Henry-Russell Hitchcock → notableWork → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modern Architecture: Romanticism and Reintegration

Richard Meier → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Googie architecture → relatedStyle → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Mid-century modern architecture

Cornelis van Eesteren → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: functionalism (architecture)

Frank Lloyd Wright → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Erich Mendelsohn → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

George L. Dahl → style → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

La Sarraz Congress → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modern Movement in architecture

Pierre Savoye → villaArchitecturalStyle → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Nathaniel A. Owings → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernism in architecture

Prairie School → influenced → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Walter Netsch → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Quebec Pavilion → architecturalStyle → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Taliesin West → style → Modern architecture ⓘ

Le Corbusier’s Five Points of Architecture → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Natalie de Blois → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernism in architecture

Mario Botta → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Maki → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

subject surface form: Fumihiko Maki

this entity surface form: Modernism in architecture

Moshe Safdie → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernism in architecture

Gregori Warchavchik (architect) → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

subject surface form: Gregori Warchavchik

William Wurster → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernism in architecture

Tange → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

subject surface form: Kenzo Tange

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

John Lautner → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Henry N. Cobb → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Sheldon Museum of Art → architecturalStyle → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Adolf Loos → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Nolen-Swinburne → architecturalStyle → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Pietro Belluschi → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Aino Aalto → influencedBy → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Freed → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

subject surface form: James Ingo Freed

this entity surface form: Modernism in architecture

Henri Ciriani → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Eixample → hasCharacteristic → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Chandigarh Capitol Complex → associatedWith → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modern Movement in architecture

Hugh Stubbins → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernist architecture

Otto Wagner → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

Otto Wagner → wrote → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Moderne Architektur (Modern Architecture)

UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of the White City of Tel Aviv) → associatedWithMovement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modern Movement in architecture

House V → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Late Modern architecture

Zehrfuss → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

subject surface form: Bernard Zehrfuss

this entity surface form: Modernism in architecture

Thomas S. Tait → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ

this entity surface form: Modernism in architecture

Avriel Shull → movement → Modern architecture ⓘ