Midcentury modernism is not the first architectural style that comes to mind when you think of Vermont. But the state’s modern structures, dating from the 1930s through 1970s, feature surprisingly ...

There’s some wild painting on show in London in Making Modernism. The Royal Academy’s new exhibition of women artists working in Germany in the early 20 th century offers a fresh perspective on some ...

In the Curator’s Words is an occasional series that takes a critical look at current exhibitions through the eyes of curators. “Inside the Design Center,” the Mingei International Museum’s newest ...

There are thousands of buildings and sites classified as Modern Movement architecture in the National Register of Historic Places. Many of the Modern Movement capitals are in the West, with cities ...

One mythology peddled by Modernist apologists is an allegedly seamless “history,” which attempts to link the Modern Movement in architecture and planning with millennia of historical developments that ...

Modernism is a 20th-century style roughly defined by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as encompassing “individual design movements that expressed modern ideals in different ways. Technical ...

Nothing has been more remarkable in the cultural life of the past decade than the speed with which the imperatives of the modern movement have been stripped of their authority. Twenty years ago it was ...

JFK Community Center by Paul R. Williams and Hilyard Robinson in Buffalo, New York (Courtesy Jalen Wright) Many of the current funded projects include churches and university buildings, such as the ...

While I certainly hope Mr. White is correct, Archbishop Gomez appears to foreclose Catholic dialogue and collaboration by describing these movements for social change as “pseudo-religions.” Two things ...

Wars, decolonization, economic crises, civil movements, and industrial-technological revolutions: the 20th century was a period of radical and far-reaching transformations. These upheavals reshaped ...

Architects at the office of Mahmoud Riad looking over a maquette of the League of Arab States Building. Image © Cairo Since 1900 This article inaugurates a new ...