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 ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

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 ...

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 ...

Black architects who helped shape the modern architecture movement have often been overlooked. One effort preserves the structures they designed... Long ignored, Black modernist architects get ...

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 ...

Ennead is CannonDesign’s largest acquisition to date. The deal adds new markets to CannonDesign’s existing 20-office ...

Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective ...

A version of the three R’s all too rare today—religion, reproduction and residential construction—flourished madly in this country after World War II, so it shouldn’t be surprising that new houses of ...

Spokane's skyline boasts three iconic buildings. The Pavilion. Gifted to the city by the United States government in preparation for Expo '74, the cable structure is unlike any other in Spokane. The ...

Modernist structures designed by architects with recognizable names like Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe dot the United States. These buildings are studied and praised for ...