Tag: International Style

Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center

Art Deco

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In the 1920s a number of French designers promoted a style that made ornament modern. They turned their backs on traditional classical and Gothic...
Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion

The International Style

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The International Style was the name chosen to describe the modernist architecture of the 1920s and early 30s, when the work of architects such...
The Grosse Schauspielhaus, Berlin

Expressionism

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The expressionist movement had its heyday in Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s. It brought dramatic new forms—curving walls and faceted domes, for...
Vienna Secession

Art Nouveau

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One of the strongest reactions against the clutter, formality and artistic revivalism of the Victorian period was Art Nouveau—a style of art that swept...
Burnham and Bennett, new plan for Chicago

The City Beautiful

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There is something very distinctive about the grid plans of American cities, but also something limited. At the end of the 19th century a...
Vitruvian proportions

Renaissance

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The “Renaissance,” coming from the Italian word for rebirth, came about when artists turned their backs on the medieval world and sought a model...
Modernism in Architecture

Modernism in Architecture between the two Wars

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Since modernism is considered here in a strictly defined national framework, little attention is paid to the cultural network of the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy,...
Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture

Features of the style of architecture of Russian architecture

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What are the features of this style? The traditions of the cross-dome system are preserved. Local limestone is used, from the blocks of which...