In fact, the entire movement can be summed up by the adage “form follows function.” Modern architecture has given rise to some of the world's most distinctive—and sometimes polarizing ...

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 ...

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century ...

Bradbury calls this one of the richest and most dynamic eras in the history of architecture ... Major elements of midcentury modern architecture, such as nonstructural exterior curtain walls ...

In that whole full-block assemblage, you can read the evolution of the modern office building, from the tower-as-corporate-logo to the architecture of disappearance, from shaft of marble to a ...

The relationship between textiles and shelter would go on to shape the entire history of architecture, from prehistoric settlements to modern skyscrapers. What lessons might these ancient origins ...

The poster and history of these sites is part of an exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum called “Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s-1970s. It shows how midcentury ...