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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 broadly and strongly expressed by the social and political movements of Europe after the extremely devastating world war.
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the 1960s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock. [1]
It is considered a prime representative of the brutalist architecture in Serbia and one of the best of its style built in the 1960s and the 1970s in the world. The treatment of the form and details is slightly associating the building with postmodernism and is today one of the rare surviving representatives of this style's early period in ...
The design of the Social Condenser is defined by a commitment to collectivist forms and features which conduce to social interaction and communal activity. [3] As such, the Social Condensers of past and present exhibit several distinctive attributes which reflect this commitment and allow for their identification amongst the proliferation of other architectural forms throughout history.
New Formalism is an architectural style that emerged in the United States during the mid-1950s and flowered in the 1960s. Buildings designed in that style exhibited many Classical elements including "strict symmetrical elevations" [ 1 ] building proportion and scale, Classical columns, highly stylized entablatures and colonnades .
118–28 – Pantheon, Rome is completed, an early full dome. [4] 113 – Trajan's Column in Rome dedicated. 104–6 – Alcántara Bridge, a Roman multiple arched bridge over the Tagus River in Spain. 82 – Arch of Titus in Rome an artifact from the 'Temple Period' and the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora. 100s – Pantheon, Rome is completed.
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Sainte Marie de La Tourette near Lyon, France, designed by Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis for the Dominican Order. Our Lady of Fatima Church in Harlow, England, designed by Gerard Goalen. St Andrew & St George Church in Stevenage, England, designed by Seely & Paget. [3] Capuchinas Chapel, Tlalpan, Mexico City, designed by Luis Barragán. [2]