Modernist architecture: inspiration from across the globe

Example of californian modernist architecture is cree house, seen here from outside with a parked car.

Modernist architecture defined the 20th century like no other movement. Its midcentury marvels quickly spread across the globe, represented in a multitude of typologies, scales and geographical locations – and giving birth to just as many regional expressions. Some of the 20th century’s most well-known architects – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Balkrishna Doshi, Oscar Niemeyer, Lina Bo Bardi, Eileen Gray, Alvar Aalto, Tadao Ando, Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Louis Kahn, to name but a few – are intrinsically linked to it. It is a movement with countless faces - and one that still influences design and architecture like no other, with iterations in other creative disciplines too, such as product design and art.

Modernist architecture: key principles