International

Modernism
WEISSENHOF SEIDLUNG Stuttgart 1927
MODERN ARCHITECTURE
STYLE NON STYLE
Henry-Russell Hitchcock & Philip
Johnson (1931)

THE INTERNATIONAL
STYLE: ARCHITECTURE
SINCE 1922
Museum of Modern Art
New York City, NY
Today a single new style has come into
existence . . . This contemporary style,
which exist throughout the world, is
unified and inclusive, not fragmentary
and contradictory like so much of the
production of the first generation of
modern architecture.
STYLISTIC PRINCIPLES OF
THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE

the expression of
volume rather than
mass
balance rather than
preconceived
symmetry
integral ornament
rather than applied
ornament
1. the expression of
volume rather than
mass
2. balance rather than
preconceived
symmetry
3. integral ornament
rather than applied
ornament
WEISSENHOF SEIDLUNG Stuttgart 1927 Mies van de Rohe
WEISSENHOF SEIDLUNG Stuttgart 1927 Mies van de Rohe & JJP Oud
WEISSENHOF SEIDLUNG Stuttgart 1927 Hans Scharoun
Maison La Roche, Le Corbusier
UN Building, New York
Plaza of Three Powers, Brasilia, Oscar Niemeyer
Plaza of Three Powers, Brasilia, Oscar Niemeyer
UNIVERSAL
RATIONAL
DEMOCRATIC
TECHNOLOGICAL
1945
2005
the rise of
THE SITE
Alvar Aalto
Saynatsalo Town Hall
Saynatsalo Town Hall
Saynatsalo Town Hall
Saynatsalo Town Hall
Saynatsalo Town Hall
Saynatsalo Town Hall
Mt. Angel Benedictine Library
Vuoskenniska Church
Baker House Dormitory, Cambridge
the rise of
SCULPTURAL
FORMS
Chapel of Notre
Dame du Haut,
Ronchamp
Le Corbusier
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, Le Corbusier
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, Le Corbusier
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, Le Corbusier
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, Le Corbusier
Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, Le Corbusier
Guggenheim Museum,New York, FL Wright
Guggenheim Museum,New York, FL Wright
Guggenheim Museum,New York, FL Wright
Guggenheim Museum,New York, FL Wright
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, JRN UTZON
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, JRN UTZON
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, JRN UTZON
Crown of Thorns Cathedral, Brasilia, Oscar Niemeyer