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Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, ... His most famous modernist work was the German pavilion for the 1929 international exposition in Barcelona ...
The student accommodation wing, Bauhaus Dessau building by Walter Gropius (1925–26) The New Objectivity (a translation of the German Neue Sachlichkeit, sometimes also translated as New Sobriety) is a name often given to the Modern architecture that emerged in Europe, primarily German-speaking Europe, in the 1920s and 30s.
Modernist architecture in Germany. Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. B. Bauhaus (9 C, 47 P) Brutalist architecture in ...
Early modern architecture: Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, built 1911 Postmodern architecture : Wells Fargo Center in Minneapolis , Minnesota, U.S., completed 1988 A stylised façade in Giyōfū architecture : Kaichi School Museum Japan (1800s)
The view from Frankfurt Cathedral, showing the diversity of German architecture. Landmarks include the reconstructed Gothic Römer city hall and old town, the Neoclassical Paulskirche and the Modernist and Postmodernist skyscrapers of the Frankfurt skyline. Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The architecture of Germany has a long
In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on their purpose and function. An international functionalist architecture movement emerged in the wake of World War I, as part of the wave of Modernism. Its ideas were largely inspired by a desire to build a new and better world for the people, as ...
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. [2] Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement.
The Bauhaus emblem, designed by Oskar Schlemmer, was adopted in 1922. Typography by Herbert Bayer above the entrance to the workshop block of the Bauhaus Dessau, 2005. The Staatliches Bauhaus (German: [ˈʃtaːtlɪçəs ˈbaʊˌhaʊs] ⓘ), commonly known as the Bauhaus (German for 'building house'), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. [1]