Modernism

Author: (American) Weslon, translated by Haiying, Yang Xiaobin
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: From Cubism to Constructivism, from abstraction to atonality, modernism developed from a vast array of cultural and theoretical emergence. It first appeared as an idea rather than an intentional style, modernism being a response to the demand for novelty and diversity among European intellectuals and artists in the early 20th century. As a cultural phenomenon, many of them are familiar with it, but it has always been the domain of a few, including masters such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius, who were outstanding promoters of the movement, with their activities centered around the "Bauhaus," which became a focal point of thought in the mid-1920s. Modernism received the "International Architecture Book Award" from the American Institute of Architects in 1998.