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Chapter 7 of 10
Modern architecture
New materials, new rules.
Steel, concrete, glass
Steel frames and lifts made towers possible, and reinforced concrete allowed cantilevers and thin shells. Ornament was stripped away as structure became the expression.
- Le Corbusier, Mies and Gropius set the terms of the movement.
- Bauhaus tied design to industrial production.
Reaction
Postmodernism reintroduced history, colour and wit, arguing that pure functionalism produced places people disliked living in.