¥Key terms:
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¥Modernism:
both as a set of responses to modernity (beginning c. 1870s-90s)
and also as a cultural manifestation (in architecture, literature,
music, philosophy, etc)
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¥some
characteristics in architecture: simplification of form; reduction or elimination
of ornament; expressed structure; materials and functional requirements
determine result; machine aesthetic; open plan; abstraction
of form; flat roof;
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¥International Style
(1920s-30s - the formative decades of Modernism, pre-WWII;
from J and HÕs book and exhibition; 3
principles; preferred materials of glass, steel and concrete);
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¥functionalism;
¥aesthetics;
¥political and
social aims;
¥response to
industrial technology;
¥critique?