The streamlined forms, the emphasis on planes and lines, the form-follows-function mentality: all tenets of architectural modernism. At the same time, though, it’s not so easy to define what is ...

Over time, that approach began to feel increasingly detached from everyday life. Rooms could appear resolved without feeling ...

This Article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine here. The story of architectural Modernism in New York City goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.

Much of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and ...

Is 20th century modern design still modern in the 21st century? “What distinguished modernism was its vociferous rejection of history and tradition.” So what if you treat modernism as a tradition, a ...

The first four issues of Verve magazine, published in 1937 (images via eBay) This isn’t to say that excellent art is impossible to come by in the pages of today’s journals, just that its role in ...

William Krisel, a pioneering architect who brought his vision of modernism to Southern California tract housing, died Monday at age 92. Tract housing often implies cookie-cutter. But in Palm Springs, ...