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 ...

A prominent glass-walled tower on the Paterson Silk Retail building was toppled earlier this month, altering the two-story expanse of glass and brick designed by modernist architect Morris Lapidus to ...

A longtime member of the faculty at Columbia University in New York, historian Kenneth Frampton, at 91 years old, remains a formidable force in architecture. In 2020, his significantly revised and ...

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 ...

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 ...

A retro, geometric house in Florida built by the late midcentury architect Tim Seibert, a leader of the Sarasota Modernist movement, has hit the market. Seibert, who was part of a design movement also ...

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 ...

Excerpt: ‘Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism’, by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy. Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism, by Mary Anne Hunting and Kevin D. Murphy.

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 ...