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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.
- List of Architectural Styles
Interactive architecture 2000–present; International style...
- International Style (architecture)
The International Style or internationalism is a major...
- List of Architectural Styles
Interactive architecture 2000–present; International style 1930–present; Isabelline Gothic 1474–1505 (reign) Spain; Islamic Architecture 691–present; Italianate architecture 1802; Jacobean architecture 1580–1660; Jacobethan 1838; Jeffersonian architecture 1790s–1830s Virginia, US; Jengki style 1950s Indonesia; Jugendstil c. 1885 ...
The International Style or internationalism is a major architectural style that was created in the 1920s and 1930s. It is similar to modernism and modern architecture . It was first named by Museum of Modern Art curators Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson in 1932.
Mar 7, 2023 · The International Style first emerged from an interest in building advancements and warehouse typologies in the early 1900s. These spaces demanded large, airy rooms that could allow for a...
Historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architect Philip Johnson coined the term International Style to describe this plain, unadorned architecture of rectilinear forms built of steel, reinforced concrete, and glass. The style transformed the skylines of many major cities around the world.
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...
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. 2) Regularity in the facade, as opposed to building symmetry. 3) No applied ornament.
