Ozenfant and the genealogy of architectural color -- Education of the eye : Ozenfant, Signac and purple shadows -- Purism and the 'divorce of painting and architecture' -- 'Colour solidity' : the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

The Aluminaire House drew crowds, and ridicule, in 1931. After several moves and a brush with demolition, it has found a home in Southern California. By Jori Finkel Reporting from Palm Springs, Calif.

In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Architecture, Media, and Climate -- Part I: The Globalization of the International Style -- Obstacles -- Risks ...

“Are You Illiterate About Modern Architecture?” by Peter Blake, was originally published in the September 1961 issue of Vogue. For more of the best from Vogue’s archive, sign up for our Nostalgia ...