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International Style
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Key facts
- Years active
- 1920s–1970s
- Location
- Worldwide
- Major figures
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Jacobus Oud , Le Corbusier , Richard Neutra and Philip Johnson .
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- architectural style
- Subclass of
- modern architecture
- Image
- מוזיאון הבאוהאוס1.jpg
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- Commons category
- International style
- influenced by
- De Stijl
- topic's main category
- Category:International Style (architecture)
- derivative work
- mid-century modern
- OpenStreetMap tag
- building:architecture=international_style
- different from
- International Typographic Style
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Encyclopedic overview
The International Style is a major architectural style and movement that began in western Europe in the 1920s and dominated modern architecture until the 1970s. It is defined by strict adherence to functional and utilitarian designs and construction methods, typically expressed through minimalism. The style is characterized by modular and rectilinear forms, flat surfaces devoid of ornamentation and decoration, open and airy interiors that blend with the exterior, and the use of glass, steel, and concrete.
The International Style is sometimes called rationalist architecture and the modern movement, although the former is mostly used in English to refer specifically to either Italian rationalism or the style that developed in 1920s Europe more broadly. In continental Europe, this and related styles are variably called Functionalism, Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity"), De Stijl ("The Style"), and Rationalism, all of which are contemporaneous movements and styles that share similar principles, origins, and proponents.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “International Style” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.