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The first large-scale elaboration of the City Beautiful occurred in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.The planning of the exposition was directed by architect Daniel Burnham, who hired architects from the eastern United States, as well as the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to build large-scale Beaux-Arts monuments that were vaguely classical with uniform cornice height.
The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s [1] [2]) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Progressives sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption as well as the enormous ...
Architectural style • Architecture timeline: 1900–present ... Rndrd – a website documenting unbuilt architectural designs representative of the 20th century
Tropical Modernism, or Tropical Modern is a style of architecture that merges modernist architecture principles with tropical vernacular traditions, emerging in the mid-20th century. The term is used to describe modernist architecture in various regions of the world, including Latin America, Asia and Africa, as detailed below.
Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. [1] Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement.
New Classical architecture 20th/21st century (global) Temple 1832+ ... Late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Victorian Era was a time of giant leaps forward in ...
Architectural styles introduced/popular in 20th-century architecture. Architecture portal; 15th; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; ... Pages in category "20th-century ...
Summary of events in architecture – by year 21st Century: 2000s – 2010s – 2020s: 20th Century: 1900s – 1910s – 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s: 19th Century: 1800s – 1810s – 1820s – 1830s – 1840s – 1850s – 1860s – 1870s – 1880s – 1890s: 18th Century: