Designing Modernism
The roots of the Modern Movement goes back to the profound social and technological changes which characterised the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the twentieth. Cities in the western world were expanding. This urbanisation needed a new approach to building. New technologies would have to be used offering cheaper and more efficient means of satisfying a larger population and a growing number of industrial clients. In the United States, the cities of Chicago and New York gave birth to some tall metal-framed buildings in the second half of the 19th century. Louis Sullivan, one of the most prominent members of the 'Chicago School' of architects, quoted "form follows function", an important phrase for Modernists ever since. A few architects built astounding new skyscrapers, which would soon be a feature of cities across the world. Although these skyscrapers were modern, they were not modernist (Le Corbusier criticised the American’s lack of urban planning). European architects responded to the American’s technological advances (including bridges and other building forms as well as skyscrapers) and it lead to the development of Modernism. In the early twentieth century, technological adv
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