His writings announced the death of Modernism, and the public spaces he designed were full of adventurous shapes and ideas. By Neil Genzlinger Charles Jencks, whose writing on architecture helped ...

Is 20th century modern design still modern in the 21st century? “What distinguished modernism was its vociferous rejection of history and tradition.” So what if you treat modernism as a tradition, a ...

This Article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine here. The story of architectural Modernism in New York City goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.

The streamlined forms, the emphasis on planes and lines, the form-follows-function mentality: all tenets of architectural modernism. At the same time, though, it’s not so easy to define what is ...

Much of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and ...

The first four issues of Verve magazine, published in 1937 (images via eBay) This isn’t to say that excellent art is impossible to come by in the pages of today’s journals, just that its role in ...

Tourists flock to Miami Beach to stroll the streets lined with the city-defining art deco design. But the wave of permanent transplants to the city is staying for the tropical modernism that has for ...

William Krisel, a pioneering architect who brought his vision of modernism to Southern California tract housing, died Monday at age 92. Tract housing often implies cookie-cutter. But in Palm Springs, ...