Modern architecture

Modern architecture is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose around 1900. By the 1940s these styles had been consolidated and identified as the International Style and became the dominant way of building for several decades in the twentieth century.

See also

• form follows function
• Le Corbusier
• Louis Kahn
• Philip Johnson
• Adolf Loos
• Mid-century modern
• Louis Sullivan
• Oscar Niemeyer
• Walter Gropius
• Otto Wagner
• Peter and Alison Smithson
• Glaspaleis