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 rooted in 1900s Europe, and is associated with a social uprising against the bourgeoisie, Brenner notes. At this time, everyday people had access to new materials and technology ...

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 ...

While modern architecture is characterized by general, overarching themes like simplicity of form and the notion that form follows function, seeing these ideas come to life is something that’s ...

THERE IS A place smack in the middle of Seattle where mid-20th-century modernism, generally the most reviled and rebarbative period in the history of architecture, is gloriously redeemed. It&rsquo ...

Glass, wood, and metal are core elements of modern interior design. They create a look that’s sleek and contemporary. “The ...

Midcentury modern architecture, it seems, will never go out of style. After suffering a blip of critical revulsion in the 1980s and early ’90s, this movement based in artful simplicity ...

Is modern architecture a “hideous cultural atrocity”? Is insisting on classical buildings the hallmark of a dictatorship? Readers engage in an aesthetic and philosophical debate.