Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

Modern architecture, emerging in the 1930s and thriving through the 1970s, revolutionized building design by focusing on functionality and human living rather than ornamental beauty. As ...

How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don't cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. In Mies van der Rohe ...

It’s almost a truism in the art and architectural world that the detonation of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis was the moment that Modernism ended. The movie poster. It was a theory first ...

Humans are psychologically wired to prefer curved, soft forms, which our brains associate with safety, calm, and nature. In contrast, sharp, angular (or rectilinear) designs can trigger a mild, ...

A courtyard interrupts the sequence. A line of glass fractures the horizon. Architecture begins to speak. A building becomes more than shelter. It becomes perception. Space unfolds through movement, ...

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 ...

Why the beauty and inventiveness of contemporary masonry in Iran has captured Western audiences. The United States expends untold amounts of money and human capital to keep its citizens uninformed ...