The rise of modern architecture was heavily influenced ... International Style, used frequently in skyscraper design.

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.

Corrugated iron and steel are the most prosaic of building materials, used in North America mostly ... There seems to be a basic rule that modern architecture uses the material horizontally ...

Led by pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, modernist architecture flourished ... yet elegant minimalism. Modern buildings typically used steel for exterior support, glass for the facade, and ...

It's old Portland, representative of an age before tall buildings were made with concrete and steel. Lever Architecture and ... that the layered wood beams used in wooden construction burn at ...

The new “buildings” could be used ... architecture.” The architect sees energy as a new type of building material. “I think about it the same way we think about concrete, glass, and steel ...

From Architectural Record, August, 1927. Read a PDF of the original article here. Steel is THE epic of this age. Steel has entered our lives as a “material” to take upon itself the physical burden of ...

Located at 154 Scott in East Williamsburg, the project included updates to a former steel ... The studio used cinder blocks to enclose the lower-level studios According to Bench Architecture ...