Modern

= Modern =



The modern architecture era didn't start in the 2000's it started in the early 1920's and lasted till the late 1950's. Modern architecture was known as the Modern Movement. Modern architecture was a self conscious style inspired by the spirit of the machine age. This new style wanted to change architecture but wasn't that popular with architects. The United States and Britain used it the most but once again few architects used this method because they didn't want to risk speculative building in the same style. Early architects of the modern movement included Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, and Ernst May in Germany also Raymond Hood, Albert Kahn, Richard J. Neutra, William Lescaze, and George Howe from the United States. Two people had a major influence, one of them was famous Austrian architect Adolf Loos. Loos spent 3 years in the United States and wrote a essay called "Ornament and Crime" in the essay he rejects ornamentation. Another great architect was Frank Lloyd Wright from the United States he moved the era along by his simplified horizontal forms. Modernism is aimed at a new way of life. Its characteristics are, it has increased sunlight, fresh air and contrast with nature. Modern's origins started in the western countries in the decade after World War I. This type of architecture was based on the use of modern materials, the principles of functionalist planning, and rejection of present precedent and ornament. In the 1920's there was a need to understand that building forms must be determined by their functions and materials if they were to achieve intrinsic significance, without resorting to the traditional ornament. The visual aesthetic of modern architecture was mostly inspired by the machine age and by abstract art. More materials were available to make the building and the interior. There was no longer just brick, there was metals concrete, and bigger glass windows. Many structural attributes were redesigned during the Modern Movement. The following list show most of the components that were redesigned:
 * Doors
 * Windows
 * Walls
 * Ceilings
 * Floors
 * Fireplaces
 * Kitchen Stove
 * Staircases
 * Built-in-furniture
 * Services
 * Lighting
 * Metalwork
 * Woodwork

Intrinsic- basic or inborn. aesthetic- the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of art and the criteria of artistic judgment. ponderous- to think about something, to wonder.

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