International Style [2]
The International Style had its origins in Europe in the 1920s, ...
Internationalism, International Style
a style, current since the 1920s, ...
International Style
1920-1945
A style of architecture applied to residences and public buildings that is minimalist in concept, is devoid of regional characteristics, stresses functionalism, and rejects all nonessential decorative elements; ...
International Style for Residences
Beginning in the 1930s, after the debacle of the First World War, the International Style rejected both Nationalism and class-driven affectations for an architecture designed for every person, in every culture, ...
International Commerce Centre (ICC)
Also Known As: Union Square Phase 7
Location: West Kowloon, Hong Kong
Architect: Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.
Design Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Association
Construction Started: 2002 ...
International
1 story
This style is based on "modern" structural principles and materials: concrete, glass, and steel. Bands of glass, which create horizontal feelings, are important design features. Buildings are cantilevered over basement footings.
International Style
[1910 A.D. - present ] open expanses characterized by planes made possible through reinforced steel and concrete of the industrial age.
International Style:
Functional modern furniture style developed in Europe during the 1920's and 1930's. The most important origin of this style was Germany's Bauhaus school. Simple lines and an absence of decoration are hallmarks of this design.
5 The International Style
Despite these noteworthy exceptions-including such later works of Wright as New York's Guggenheim Museum (completed 1959)-the style initiated by the Bauhaus architects and termed the International Style gradually ...
International style
- term coined by the organisers of the first international exhibition of modern architecture, New York 1932. Now a representative term for mainstream architecture from 1920 to 1960, although there are differences between countries.
International Style - This popular avant-garde style of the 1930’s was identified by features such as flat roof, usually without ledge (coping) at the roof line, windows, Usually metal casements) set flush with outer walls, smooth, ...
Modern or International (1915 to present)
Among the most notable styles of architecture are Art Deco, a style popular in the 1920's and 1930's characterised by geometrical shapes and stylised natural forms and symmetry; Art Nouveau, ...
Samarkand once again rose to international prominence in 1369 when it was captured by the Mongol emperor Timur and chosen as his capital.
And if Florence is the ideal city of the Renaissance, then Rome is the ideal city of the Baroque, in this case privileged by the convergence of ambitious popes and an artist of international repute, Gianlorenzo Bernini, heir to Bramante, ...
As a result of this diffusion of artistic currents, a new pictorial synthesis emerged, known as the International Gothic style, in which, as foreshadowed by Pucelle, Gothic elements were combined with the illusionistic art of the Italian painters.
It was a reaction against the rigid formulae of the American version of the International Style.
Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the International Building Code
by Francis D. K. Ching (Author), et al
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The Bauhaus school disbanded when the Nazis rose to power. Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and other Bauhaus leaders migrated to the United States. The term International Style was applied to the American form of Bauhaus architecture.
An inter-war style of bold simplified patterns and bright colours, often combining self-consciously up-to-date motifs with others derived from non-European or ‘primitive' art. The name derives from the Exposition Internationale des Arts ...
Tabarelli, G.M., Ideal and Fortified Cities of the Renaissance, Arts, Arms and Armour, An International Anthology Volume 1, 1979 - 80, Switzerland, 1979.
Toy, S., A History of Fortifications from 3000 BC to AD 1700, London, 1955.
Architectural adherents included the brothers Alexander and Vladimir Vesnin, and Vladimir Tatlin, whose revolutionary but unbuilt tower commemorating the Communist International remains an icon of the period.
International Style - US term referring to what in Europe was Modern Movement of the early 20th century; the style featured undercoated cubic forms, white rendering and a horizontal aspect emphasisied in large windows.
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