What modern is: introduction -- Space opens up -- Staging modernity: the aesthetics of the future -- A new style of life: artifacts of modernity -- At home in the brave new world -- Buildings like ...
A new exhibition entitled Modern Nicosia to celebrate the city’s often unappreciated modernist architecture is on display at Mayor Lellos Demetriadou Square (former Municipal Market agora) in the ...
Click here to download a PDF of High-Performance Reconstructed Buildings: The 99% Solution, the 9th in a Series of White Papers on the Green Building Movement A radical break from the architectural ...
Editor’s Note: Owen Hopkins is senior curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum, and author of “Architecture and Freedom: searching for Agency in a Changing World.” Postmodernism is back. We see it in the ...
Some of the most unique pieces of modernist architecture from the 20th century are also the most endangered. Bold, and often comparatively weird, the modernist architecture of the mid- to late-1900s ...
Nothing has been more remarkable in the cultural life of the past decade than the speed with which the imperatives of the modern movement have been stripped of their authority. Twenty years ago it was ...
TOKYO -- In recent decades, Japanese modern and contemporary art have become well established within the broader historical narrative of modernism's evolution from the latter 1800s through the late ...
Peter Bransten, a lawyer and descendant of a founder of MJB, a San Francisco coffee company, began to understand and love modernism only after he moved to Los Angeles and watched the construction of a ...
Back in its day, modernism was, well, modern. Now, more than half a century later, it is amazing to me that its characteristic tics — dark wood panelling, cubic seating, curtain walls of glass and ...
Long seen as the poor relation of the international art world, modern African art has undergone a massive surge in prestige and commercial interest over the past two decades. The realisation that ...
Bringing together over 250 creative works by more than 50 influential artists, 'Nigerian Modernism' at the Tate Modern in London takes us through recent Nigerian history and the burgeoning of its ...