# Modernist Architecture

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Category: Architecture
Slides: 31
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:17:24.790Z
Tags: architecture, modernist

## Summary

Modernism is the architecture that decided history was over. From roughly 1910 to roughly 1970, an international generation of architects argued that the new materials of industry — steel, glass, reinforced concrete — required a new architectural language without historical reference, applied ornament, or regional inflection. They were partly right and partly catastrophically wrong, and the buildings they made now... Key sections include: Modern ism.; Opening The break.; Chapter I The Bauhaus.; Chapter II Mies van der Rohe.; Chapter III Mies's principles.; Chapter IV Le Corbusier.; Chapter V Le Corbusier's writing.; Chapter VI Frank Lloyd Wright.; Chapter VII Organic architecture.; Chapter VIII The 1932 catalogue..

## Slide Outline

1. Modern ism.
2. Opening The break.
3. Chapter I The Bauhaus.
4. Chapter II Mies van der Rohe.
5. Chapter III Mies's principles.
6. Chapter IV Le Corbusier.
7. Chapter V Le Corbusier's writing.
8. Chapter VI Frank Lloyd Wright.
9. Chapter VII Organic architecture.
10. Chapter VIII The 1932 catalogue.
11. Chapter IX Walter Gropius.
12. Chapter X Alvar Aalto.
13. Chapter XI Brasília.
14. Chapter XII The American postwar.
15. Chapter XIII Case Study Houses.
16. Chapter XIV The postwar diffusion.
17. Chapter XV The postmodern reaction.
18. Chapter XVI Late modernism, neo-modernism.
19. Chapter XVII Asian modernism.
20. Chapter XVIII The counter-traditions.
21. Chapter XIX The failures.
22. Chapter XX What survives.
23. Chapter XXI The pilgrimage.
24. Chapter XXII The library.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV The case for and against.
27. Chapter XXV Where it goes.
28. Chapter XXVI The argument's end.
29. Chapter XXVII Looking at modernism.
30. Chapter XXVIII Where modernism still lives.
31. The end of the deck.

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