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.

Aliases (7)

Modernist architecture ×5
High-tech architecture ×1
Mid-century modern architecture ×1
Modern Architecture: Romanticism and Reintegration ×1
Modern Movement in architecture ×1
Modernism in 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 NERFINISHED → Erich Mendelsohn → Frank Lloyd Wright → Gerrit Rietveld → 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 architecture → Brutalism → Expressionist architecture → International Style → Organic architecture →
hasNotableWork	Barcelona Pavilion → Bauhaus Dessau building → Brasília civic buildings → Fallingwater → Seagram Building → 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 →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Cornelis van Eesteren ("functionalism (architecture)") → Erich Mendelsohn → Frank Lloyd Wright → La Sarraz Congress ("Modern Movement in architecture") → Nathaniel A. Owings ("Modernism in architecture") → Norman Foster ("High-tech architecture") → Philip Johnson → Richard Meier → Walter Netsch →	movement
George L. Dahl ("Modernist architecture") → Taliesin West →	style
Quebec Pavilion ("Modernist architecture") →	architecturalStyle
Art Nouveau ("Modernist architecture") →	followedBy
Prairie School ("Modernist architecture") →	influenced
Henry-Russell Hitchcock ("Modern Architecture: Romanticism and Reintegration") →	notableWork
Googie architecture ("Mid-century modern architecture") →	relatedStyle
Pierre Savoye ("Modernist architecture") →	villaArchitecturalStyle