Architects of the early twentieth-century modern movement, who broke from historical ornament in favor of function, new materials and abstraction, including the Bauhaus, the International Style and the movement's founding pioneers. Belongs here: any architect whose defining practice establishes or extends the early modern break from historicism, roughly the 1900s through the 1940s. Does not belong here: a postwar modernist extending an already-established modern vocabulary, who belongs under the postwar grouping instead.
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Era of Emergence Origin Region All Early Modern Movement Architecture
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia, Modern architecture, lead section, era
Modern architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from revolutions in technology, engineering, and building materials, and from a desire to break away from historical architectural styles.
Wikipedia, Modern architecture, section Early modernism in Europe, region
Early modernism in Europe (1900-1914)
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