Question

Modernism in architecture was forged in the devastation of europe after world war i , a place where every kind of authority including ____style was ___by the disaster of the trenches. Fundamental---heard inherited----discredited singular---adopted axiomatic---abrogated

Answer 1

Modern architecture, or modernist architecture was based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should follow function; an embrace of minimalism; and a rejection of ornament.[1] It emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and corporate buildings by Postmodern architecture.[2]


At the end of the 19th century, a few architects began to challenge the traditional Beaux Arts and Neoclassical styles that dominated architecture in Europe and the United States. The Glasgow School of Art(1896-99) designed by Charles Rennie MacIntosh, had a facade dominated by large vertical bays of windows.[11] The Art Nouveaustyle was launched in the 1890s by Victor Horta in Belgium and Hector Guimard in France; it introduced new styles of decoration, based on vegetal and floral forms. In Barcelona, Antonio Gaudi conceived architecture as a form of sculpture; the facade of the Casa Battlo in Barcelona(1904–1907) had no straight lines; it was encrusted with colorful mosaics of stone and ceramic tiles [12]