Our expert guide on modern architecture explains all about the history, key aesthetic characteristics, and leading architects of this iconic design movement.© Richard A. Cooke III - Getty Images ...

“For me, modern architecture is most succinctly summarized by Peter Blake, who was the former chief curator of architecture design at MoMA, in the introduction to a book he wrote in the 1970s ...

In modern architecture and interior design, the push toward clean lines, industrial accents, and functional beauty has created a demand for materials that are as strong as they are sleek. […] ...

It goes as far as possible without disaster. 3 THE need to temper and qualify modern architecture is evident in recent Italian museum design.

Midcentury-modern architecture is not simply anything that was designed and built in the middle of the 20th century, but in fact an architectural style with a defined set of principles and influences.

The Aluminaire House, one of the earliest and edgiest examples of the International Style of modernist architecture in America, was never meant to withstand a harsh desert climate. Originally it ...

The mid-century modern movement and its core tenets played a role in nearly all design practices— interior design, graphic design, industrial design, and architecture—for decades, starting ...