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

Much of the production of modern architecture on the American continent was based on the model of European architects who, with their works, projected the fundamental premises and ideas for modern ...

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.

This article was originally published on Common Edge. "O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power ...

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

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. Mies van der Rohe: ...

Throughout much of the 20th century, a unique interdisciplinary conversation unfolded at Yale concerning the role of time and history in modern art and architecture. It was an ongoing discussion among ...

Midcentury modern is a term that’s thrown around a lot these days, but what is it really? Midcentury-modern architecture is not simply anything that was designed and built in the middle of the 20th ...

Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years tells the dramatic story of the transformation of Chinese architecture from a predominantly modular, timber-frame, single-story building system with ceramic tile ...

“Are You Illiterate About Modern Architecture?” by Peter Blake, was originally published in the September 1961 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia ...