International style

International Style [2]
The International Style had its origins in Europe in 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
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International Style
Picture Dictionary of Modern Architecture: International Style
Le Corbusier's United Nations Secretariat building in New York is a famous example of the International Style.

International Style
[1910 A.D. - present ] open expanses characterized by planes made possible through reinforced steel and concrete of the industrial age.

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 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, ...

It was a reaction against the rigid formulae of the American version of the International Style.

Modern architecture in Kuwait is mostly in the modern international style, although there are several buildings which demonstrate some relationship to Islamic themes.

The International style is one of only two house types with flat roofs -- Art Deco is the other flat-roofed style.
The International style was commonly used for commercial buildings from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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.

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.

This process led eventually to the realistic painting of Jan van Eyck and the northern Renaissance and away from the conceptual point of view of the Middle Ages. Thus, even though the International style is sometimes described as Gothic, ...

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