From
Hitchcock and Johnson, The International Style: Architecture Since 1922 (pp.19-20)
a universal style?
a universal style?
¥ÒToday a single new style has
come into existenceÉ
¥This contemporary style, which
exists throughout the world, is unified and inclusive, not
fragmentary and contradictory like so much of the production of the first
generation of modern architectsÉ
¥
¥In the handling of the problems of
structure it is related to the Gothic, in the handling of
the problems of design it is more akin to the Classical.
¥The unconscious and halting
architectural developments of the nineteenth century,
the confused and contradictory experimentation of the beginning of the twentieth,
have been succeeded by a directed evolution. There is now a single body of
discipline, fixed enough to integrate contemporary style as a reality and yet elastic
enough to permit individual interpretation and to encourage general growth.Ó