TAKAMATSU CITY, Japan >> Zipping along a two-way thoroughfare here, I gazed out at the parade of small apartment buildings, sporadic shops and single­-family homes. The scene could have been Anywhere, ...

Modern architecture, emerging in the 1930s and thriving through the 1970s, revolutionized building design by focusing on functionality and human living rather than ornamental beauty. As ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

Bowl, now known as Bowlero Christown, is a classic example of midcentury modern architecture in central Phoenix. The “Googie” ...

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.

As early as 1964, the British architectural historian Ian Nairn identified the fatal flaws in modern architecture, saying that it “is hamstrung by self-consciousness and strangled by intellectual ...

Architect and writer Pierluigi Serraino, AIA, takes readers on a stroll through Modern gardens in this forthcoming survey, which aims to shed light on the overlooked landscapes that surround so many ...

The history of modern architecture has been well covered in classical surveys that traced the developments of this major movement that dominated the architectural landscape of the 20th century until ...

Given that the architects of modernity were in search of purity of form, it stands to reason that the image of this modern architecture is almost inevitably rendered in white in the collective ...

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