Modern_Architecture

Modern Architecture Defining Modern Architecture Modernism in architecture can be defined by many historians and architects differently with varying dates of its origin. It can be described as a culmination of movements such as, De Stijl, Art Nouveau, different schools such as the Bauhaus, and the many individuals who aspire to create new architecture. This new architecture would carry meaning and order and hopefully a solution to the future of architecture. Individuals such as, Le Corbusier, and Hitchcock and Johnson played an important role in the shaping of the definition of modern architecture and its direction world wide. Philip Johnson and Russell Hitchcock believe the contemporary style of today owes a lot to the structural development of the use of metal. They state that, “the Crystal Palace at the London Exposition of 1851, Paxton’s magnificent iron and glass construction, has far more in common with the architecture of our day than with that of its own.” [H&J, 39] New construction methods were being invented but were not necessarily playing a role in the art of architecture in its early stages. Ferroconcrete, what we call “reinforced concrete” was invented in 1849, “yet it was at least fifty years before le, corbusier, new, architecture, johnson, hitchcock, style, principles, house, curtis, loos, construction, ornament, modern, international, design, able, one, windows, villa, part, free, buildings, building, architects, whose, true, time, style’, reasons, principle, points, plan, name