How did modern architecture develop to its present state? Three new monographs trace that path, even if they don’t cover every direction the field has taken over the last century. Mies van der Rohe: ...

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

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.

FOR the last century American domestic architecture has been a series of fads. After the end of the Georgian tradition, houses were successively designed to look like Greek temples, mediæval ...

mASEANa: Appreciating modern ASEAN architecture is a visually immersive and regionally groundbreaking publication that explores the rich and diverse expressions of the 20th-century architectural ...

Throughout much of the 20th century, a unique interdisciplinary conversation unfolded at Yale concerning the role of time and history in modern art and architecture. It was an ongoing discussion among ...

Midcentury modern is a term that’s thrown around a lot these days, but what is it really? Midcentury-modern architecture is not simply anything that was designed and built in the middle of the 20th ...

Dusk view of flat-roofed house upon girders, thrust out from hillside. All-glass walls reveal bright interior with modern furniture. Although “midcentury modern” has evolved into a highly popular and ...

“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 ...