Articles of category "Modern notable architects"

Modernist architects were in search for "modern" ornament. In 1908 Adolf Loos published his work "Ornament and Crime", conveying the thought that the cultural progress is connected with the elimination of ornament from the objects of everyday life. It also stated that it was a crime to make builders or craftsmen to spend their working time on making ornaments.

In art, architecture, literature and music, postmodernism is a word for many developments from and stylistic responses to modernism. Postmodernist architecture is a style which occurred as a reaction to modernism. What kind of reaction does modernism merit and does it deserve it at all? Learn more about postmodernism in architecture and most the prominent postmodern architects.