When the Bauhaus opened, the modern movement in architecture began to coalesce.
The main principles of the modern movement are - architecture is an expression of volume and not mass, asymmetrical composition and regular repetition instead of classic symmetry, avoidance of all decorations that do not have a useful purpose.
"Post-Modernism: Late twentieth-century style that seemed to reject the Modern Movement, and had some Historicist references, such as pediments, columns, keystones, and the like, but often in a whimsical and unscholarly manner.
As these buildings and other subsequent projects, such as the recently completed and acclaimed Terminal 4, Barajas Airport in Madrid (1997- 2005) demonstrate, a unique interpretation of the Modern Movement's fascination with the building as machine, ...
The Modern Movement is a narrower term, used in Britain for the rigorous Modernist architecture of the period c. 1930-55, after which it becomes hard to distinguish from ordinary building in non-traditional styles.Modillions ...
" The series was not solely Modern in its aesthetics, but it included several Modern houses (among them the Miller house) and discussed even traditional-looking houses in terms of planning and functionality, terms that came from the Modern movement.
Frieze - Decorated band either on the upper part of an internal wall or on an entablature.
Functionalism - Principle of the Modern Movement in architecture that everything seen and used in building should have a function, ...
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