What is Modern Architecture? The moniker “Modern Architecture” refers to structures conceived and constructed with Modernism’s aesthetic, cultural, and societal outlook. In the fields of art, literature, building, and music, it emphasized taking risks, ignoring conventional wisdom, and expressing oneself freely. After World War I, the Modern Movement in building really took off. Modern Architecture aims to create a space…
Postmodern Architecture Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. The movement was introduced by the architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown and architectural theorist Robert Venturi in their 1972 book Learning from Las Vegas. The style flourished from the…
