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International Style, the dominant style of Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century. Its common characteristics include rectilinear forms, little applied ornamentation and decoration, and open interior spaces.
The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. [1] [2] It is defined by strict adherence to functional and utilitarian designs and construction methods, typically expressed through minimalism.[2] [3] The style is characterized by modular and rectilinear forms, flat surfaces devoid ...
7 Μαρ 2023 · The International Style first emerged from an interest in building advancements and warehouse typologie s in the early 1900s. These spaces demanded large, airy rooms that could allow for a...
14 Απρ 2017 · In the face of opposition from totalitarian regimes in the 1930s, many of the International Style's European proponents resettled in the United States, where economic expansion after World War II allowed it to flourish, particularly in skyscraper construction.
The phrase 'International Style' was one among many terms used in the 1920s to denote modern architecture. Introduced by an American to characterize a particular kind of European architecture, the term became generally applied in later decades to a broad range of contemporary buildings.
The International Style was the name chosen to describe the modernist architecture of the 1920s and early 30s, when the work of architects such as Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier was exhibited in New York in 1932.
In 19th century Paris, vibrant convention-defying posters, such as those designed by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, captured the public imagination. However it was the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle that brought the sweeping and innovative style of Art Nouveau to the world at large.
