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The International Style

Formal manifestations

•emerged in Europe and the United States during the 1920s;

•The term was first used by Philip Johnson in connection with a 1932 architectural exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City;
• Architects working in the International style gave new emphasis to the expression of structure, the lightening of mass, and the enclosure of dynamic spaces;
•Important examples in Europe include the Bauhaus at Dessau, Germany, by Walter Gropius (1925ﾐ26) and the Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France, by Le Corbusier (1929ﾐ30);
•In America: (George) Howe & (William) Lescaze’s (Swiss-born) Philadelphia Saving Fund Society in Pennsylvania; Richard Neutra (Austrian-born) in L.A.; Bowman Brothers; Raymond Hood;
•Frank Lloyd Wright, a “pioneer ancestor” but not strictly speaking of the International Style; considered one of the style’s “most important sources” (both to Americans and Europeans, Oud, Gropius, Mies)