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  1. Years active1920s–1980s
    LocationInternational
    Origins

    Modern architecture emerged at the end of the 19th century from revolutions in technology, engineering, and building materials, and from a desire to break away from historical architectural styles and invent som… See more

    Early modernism in Europe (1900–1914)

    • The Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1896–99)
    • Reinforced concrete apartment building by Auguste Perret, Paris (1903)
    Austrian Postal Savings Bank in Vienna by Otto Wagner (1904–1906) … See more

    Early American modernism (1890s–1914)

    William H. Winslow House, by Frank Lloyd Wright, River Forest, Illinois (1893–94)
    • The Arthur Heurtley House in Oak Park, Illinois (1902)
    Larkin Administration Building by Frank Lloyd Wright, Buffalo, New York (1904–1906) … See more

    Rise of modernism in Europe and Russia (1918–1931)

    After the first World War, a prolonged struggle began between architects who favored the more traditional styles of neo-classicism and the Beaux-Arts architecture style, and the modernists, led by Le CorbusierSee more

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