International Style

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Esplanade Apartments and Lake Shore Drive Apartments

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Category: Arts & Culture

Date:: c. 1920 - c. 1970

Related Artists:: Le Corbusier; Frank Lloyd Wright; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Walter Gropius; Richard Meier

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International Style, architectural style that developed in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and ’30s and became the dominant tendency in Western architecture during the middle decades of the 20th century. The most common characteristics of International Style buildings are rectilinear forms; light, taut plane surfaces that have been completely stripped of applied ornamentation and decoration; open interior spaces; and a visually weightless quality engendered by the use of cantilever construction. Glass and steel, in combination with usually less visible reinforced concrete, are the characteristic materials of construction. The term International Style was first used in 1932 by ...(100 of 807 words)

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