Brutalism
The style known as brutalism was a bold, distinctive version of modernism that became popular in the 1960s. Typified by extensive use of concrete...
Heritage
The way we have looked at historical buildings has changed greatly over the past 150 years. From being all but ignored by the authorities,...
Segregated planning
Mass car ownership and the increased traffic it brought posed a major challenge to architects and planners. For decades, the obvious solution seemed to...
Dymaxion design
Richard Buckminster Fuller combined the roles of engineer, inventor and architect to produce a number of innovative designs, the most famous of which were...
Organic architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright
For thousands of years writers on architecture have compared the creations of builders and architecture to the natural world. The great American architect Frank...
Art Deco
In the 1920s a number of French designers promoted a style that made ornament modern. They turned their backs on traditional classical and Gothic...
Minimalism
One of the most familiar interior design styles of recent decades is minimalism—plain walls, surfaces uninterrupted by ornament or moldings, zero clutter. Fashionable as...
The International Style
The International Style was the name chosen to describe the modernist architecture of the 1920s and early 30s, when the work of architects such...
Bauhaus
The Bauhaus was a school of design, founded in Germany in 1919, that had a lasting influence on architecture and the design of all...
Constructivism
The Russian constructivist movement flourished briefly in the 1920s and 30s. Constructivist architects produced breathtaking modern designs, often glorying in unusual and innovative structures....
