I have to do a research paper based on modern architecture, due after we return from christmas break...and i don't know much about it...i have used google to see if i can find something good but all i can find are architects' websites that says are modern...Santiago calatrava would be one...it's so confusing..I need something like the definition of what modern architecture is...so if anyone wants to help me...it would be really awesome! m))

Modern in the generic meaning of anything built in the modern period?

Or Modernist style, like Mies van der Rohe, Bruce Graham. Form follows function, boxy is better etc.?

yes, do you mean modern or Modern?

I think it might be modernist... because there are things built in the modern period but they still look old...or at least have that old feeling...

The best way I could define Modernism is: Architecture that empasizes functionality over decoration. It features mass-produced materials, like glass, steel and aluminum, replacing stone and wood. Absract shapes replace time-worn symbolism to give the building identity and recognition.

The best way I could define Modernism is: Architecture that empasizes functionality over decoration. It features mass-produced materials, like glass, steel and aluminum, replacing stone and wood. Absract shapes replace time-worn symbolism to give the building identity and recognition.


thats my definition, oh my god, you just though as exactly as i did....
i totally agree with you!!!!

The modern style happened with Mies van der Rohe, le corbudier, frank loyd wright, and so on, to specify whats been done nowadays we say contemporany architecture.

ahhh yes but then you have late modernism and it all gets very complicated...
abstract shapes are used simply because they are functional. i think the main idea of modernism (whether brutalist or international) was that the architect was dead and instead there was an engineer which was combined with as a famous frenchman put it "less is more".

I have to do a research paper based on modern architecture, due after we return from christmas break...and i don't know much about it...i have used google to see if i can find something good but all i can find are architects' websites that says are modern...Santiago calatrava would be one...it's so confusing..I need something like the definition of what modern architecture is...so if anyone wants to help me...it would be really awesome! m))

some of the most famous modern architects are le corbusier and mies van der rohe. their buildings are rather blend, usually white and simple. current architects like frank ghery, daniel liebeskind belong to the postmodernism/deconstruction period.

some would say
modern(function follows form:less is more) -
post war period which stresses on function ...
eg.le corbusier and mies as most prominent figure
post modern - less is bore ... a reaction to minimalist ...
to think beyond conventionalism ...
kinds of thoughts ... a sort of a transitional style ... never constant ...