Modern architecture was not simply a style, but more of an attitude. A determination to break the past and free the architect from the stifling rules of convention and etiquette.
- Buildings were functional machines for performing various programs. One of the principal ideas driving modern architecture was that building should be first and foremost functional machines.
- The modern architecture showed a great contradictions between various styles of its architects, but all of them reflected the protest against the old (but with different mentalities).

 

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Modern architectural movement reflected clearly social, economical, political, cultural changes in the 20th century, by using; all possible technological means, all new materials (glass, iron, and concrete).

This architecture was actually a moral force and a philosophical investigation. It represented the strongest form of protest against the past (with its ordinary architecture) by breaking down the old traditional styles with its restrictions, its decorations, and its old mentality. Walter Gropius (famous architect of modern architecture) summed up his own insight about this architecture as follows, "We have had enough of the arbitrary imitation of historical styles. In a continuous development away from architectural caprices and whimsy and toward the dictates of a constructive logic, we have learned to express the life of our epoch in pure, simplified forms.” 1

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Modern architecture was not simply a style, but more of an attitude. A determination to break the past and free the architect from the stifling rules of convention and etiquette.

- Buildings were functional machines for performing various programs. One of the principal ideas driving modern architecture was that building should be first and foremost functional machines.

- The modern architecture showed a great contradictions between various styles of its architects, but all of them reflected the protest against the old (but with different mentalities).

 

 

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Modern architecture was not simply a style, but more of an attitude. A determination to break the past and free the architect from the stifling rules of convention and etiquette.

- Buildings were functional machines for performing various programs. One of the principal ideas driving modern architecture was that building should be first and foremost functional machines.

- The modern architecture showed a great contradictions between various styles of its architects, but all of them reflected the protest against the old (but with different mentalities).

TÍTULO 3

Modern architecture was not simply a style, but more of an attitude. A determination to break the past and free the architect from the stifling rules of convention and etiquette.
- Buildings were functional machines for performing various programs. One of the principal ideas driving modern architecture was that building should be first and
foremost functional machines.
- The modern architecture showed a great contradictions between various styles of its architects, but all of them reflected the protest against the old (but with different mentalities).

 

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