WHAT IS MODERN: CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
Modernism is a global architecture and design movement that emerged in the 1920s as a response to accelerated industrialization and social changes. Pursuing order and universals in architecture, modernism utilized new materials and advanced technology and rejected old, traditional, historical ideas and styles, and ornamentation. Modernism emphasized function, simplicity, and rationality, and created new forms of expression with a new aesthetic. This new aesthetic resulted in modern buildings characterized by clean lines, simple geometric shapes,…