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The International Style or internationalism is a major architectural style that was developed in the 1920s and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and modernist architecture. It was first defined by Museum of Modern Art curators Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in 1932, based on works of architecture from the 1920s.
International Style, the dominant style of Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century. Its common characteristics include rectilinear forms, little applied ornamentation and decoration, and open interior spaces.
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Mar 7, 2023 · Written by Kaley Overstreet. Published on March 07, 2023. Share. When people describe the modernist movement as a whole, they broadly reference the steel and glass skyscrapers which dot many of our...
Apr 14, 2017 · The term "International Style" was coined in 1932 by an eponymous exposition of European architects at the Museum of Modern Art in New York curated by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson to describe an ethos of construction purely in terms of materials and space, with virtually no reference to the sociopolitical dimension, as had been hig...
Contemporary Architecture. For architects. The International Style. Mies van der Rohe’s German Pavilion. The International Style was the name chosen to describe the modernist architecture of the 1920s and early 30s, when the work of architects such as Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier was exhibited in New York in 1932.
The “International Style” exhibition coined the style name and introduced these radically modern buildings to an American audience. Hitchcock and Johnson laid out three key design principles of the International Style: 1) Architecture as volume – thin planes or surfaces create the building’s form, as opposed to a solid mass