When Did Modern Architecture Actually Begin? | ARTiculations

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Did modern architecture really begin in the 1920s with the founding of the Bauhaus school? Perhaps. But perhaps the changing landscape of architectural practice and theory throughout the last 200 years is not as straight forward as it seems.
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[@ARTiculations]

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[@carlosromanikaoss3063]

Nice video, and very interesting. Just one comment: iron and steel structures are actually less fire resistant than timber, paradoxically. Iron is not combustible, but looses strenght with temperature and is a very good thermal conductor. Which means that in a fire, iron structures will colapse quickly. Timber structures burn from outside to inside, the outside layer carbonizes and carbonization progreses towards the core, but it takes longer to colapse than bare iron. Construction codes allow timber structures to be "naked" while metal structures us be painted with fire-resistant paint or encased in concrete . The Crystal Palace, for example, was destroyed in a fire.

[@ARTiculations]

This is a good point, I should have clarified this better in the video. Historically the movement away from timber structure for commercial buildings and densely populated districts is to minimize fire spread - which is why combustible materials were avoided because it was more likely to catch on fire. But you're right that once a building does catch on fire, timber is generally more fire resistant than metal and will less likely result in structural failure. Thanks for pointing this out.

[@carlosromanikaoss3063]

You're welcome! Is just a very logical point when explained, but surprising ...

[@dutchman7623]

@@carlosromanikaoss3063 A glass and steel building doesn't burn, but the content does, that weakens the structure.

[@aubeenlopez1051]

Yeah that's why the South Houston district (SOHO) in NYC, with its historic cast iron facades, was once known as "Hell's Hundred Acres."

[@robabiera733]

Interesting. It does seem counterintuitive, doesn't it? Sounds like a great idea for a KZbin video. Hmmmm . . .

[@qwaqwa1960]

Seeing images of the crystal palace invariably brings me to tears. I just want to be there! Amazing.

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[@cleversushi8428]

Thank you so much!! I really appreciate that you put on link references of the video in the description box, i have an assignment in which I have to explain the impact of glass and steel in modern architecture and this video really covered it all. I couldn't wait to relay this information with my class soon, so thanks again for putting this video together♡♡🤧

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Very good video! I love the touches on urban planning. I foresee an epic collab with City Beautiful sometime in the future!

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[@AllIsWellaus]

I watched the film, Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect recently. It's definitely worth adding on your list of films to watch.

[@ARTiculations]

To learn more about the Crystal Palace, please check out my friend Amor Sciendi's awesome video about it - kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3-4o4CJabOSma8

[@MAlanThomasII]

The Crystal Palace is amazing and has a surprising amount of pop-culture relevance.

[@AmorSciendi]

Thanks for the shout!

[@Krakow725]

The "Infomart building" in Dallas, TX is modeled after the Crystal Palace.

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[@MAlanThomasII]

I would say that architectural movements are a bit like genres in fiction and the like; they exist once people begin deliberately making examples of them. E.g., for fantasy literature, there's a point near the end of the 19th century when people started realizing that there was a distinct genre forming that was separate from (if directly linked to) stories that merely had elements of "the fantastic" in them. Once people set out to start writing in that nascent genre, those new writings were fantasy. This does produce a sort of chicken-and-egg problem, but transition periods are a thing and we shouldn't expect clear and unambiguous lines. In the architectural case, I'd say that the work prior to the essay you referenced was proto-Modern, driven by reasons other than imitating a discrete movement, but the essay allowed those that came after it to work _deliberately_ in that new mode.

[@tosoledo]

An other example of the fact that because something is new, it doesn't mean it is better.

[@jesseyoung7855]

I think you did a great job identifying some of the key components; technology, opportunity, and acceptance. For me, the most interesting aspect is the theory that developed a movement, and how that movement fits into history. I like to look at the philosophy, and scientific advancements as well as literature. It all goes hand in hand.

[@miloticrazy]

Thank you so much for putting the names and dates for the images in your video. It's so helpful!

[@detectivelys]

I really love your videos, they give such a great overview over various topics and make me think about the world around me differently. Thank you for the work you put it. You always manage to make the videos interesting, so even though I never was particularly interested in modernism I know I will be after watching the video! // Update: I am now!

[@yuiz5489]

id think that the widespread use of a style would be the only way to say something has truly begun, but thats hard to pin down with any specificty, so id think for any offical definition the paper or school should be cited. just my 2 cents on a really cool vid

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[@EmnM2010]

I never would have thought of the Crystal Palace as "modern" architecture, let alone any architectural theory from the 1800's. It seems to far away - but considering what was going on prior to that, I guess it's still pretty revolutionary in the grand scheme of western history. XD

[@goober7535]

ever thought of a video on art deco or "mayan revival" architecture?

[@puppetguttv2754]

Have you ever seen The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque campus, Humes McKenzie? I did some graduate work there (notice how slickly I slid that little bit of brag in there) and when I read your comment...well, if you are not familiar with that campus' architecture, I would highly recommend checking out some pics online. It's amazing, IMHO.

[@sharksport01]

Is there any art deco architecture?

[@AmorSciendi]

Love this. Linking architecture to other developments in the 20th century is so interesting. I love the brief analysis of the Bauhaus as well. If you ever want to get together for a collaboration to expand on it, I feel like I need an excuse to immerse myself more in that philosopher. To answer the question at the end of the video: I'll go with "the spread of its ideas" or at least the spread of a recognized visual aesthetic, even if it there are diverse pieces of that aesthetic that don't necessarily fit with each other.

[@loutfihassan6663]

Thanks a lot for this very informative and useful video.... so, as an architect, I would strongly support the idea that says modern architecture has begun with the Industrial Revolution, specifically in the second half of the 19th century... once again, keep on making such wonderful videos ....

[@dreamermagister8561]

I really dont enjoy modern architecture because how much it ruined my country's historical architecture. I live in Turkey btw. Ever since 1950s the beautiful landscape and architecture of anatolia was ruined by concrete, ugly buildings.

[@darkoneforce2]

That's true everywhere.

[@darkoneforce2]

@Daniel Molinar That's the question indeed.

[@Obinjess]

Modern Turkey looks better than the old, ugly Byzantine buildings with excess ornamentation put there just to perpetuate outdated construction methods.

[@seahawk124]

Q) When did the change start? A) Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and Frank Lloyd Wright. The architecture of the Western world at the turn of the century - 1895 to 1905 - was at best a collection of eclectic styles, with hardly one relating in any way or sense to the ideal of the nation in which it was built. This was an era which regarded architecture as an application of fashions and styles, unrelated to structural or construction techniques. Yet it was also a time going revolutionary change. New materials were emerging, and new methods of handling older ones were being developed at the same time. But the architecture being designed reflected little if anything of those new methods and materials. The Chicago Fair of 1893, was a supreme case in point. On the one hand, Louis Sullivan claimed that the Exposition "put American architecture behind for at least 50 years", while on the other hand Daniel Burnham, lauded the fair as an example of what the Americans would want to build. He told Wright, when urging him to go to the Beaux-Arts in Paris, "The Fair, Frank, is going to have a great influence in our country. The American people have seen the Classics on a grand scale for the first time". The young architect, just starting his own practice with the William Winslow house, replied, "No, there is Louis Sullivan... And if John Root were alive I don't believe he would feel that way about it. Richardson I am sure never would." Burnham further argued, "Frank, the Fair should have shown you that Sullivan and Richardson are well enough in their way, but their way won't prevail - architecture is going the other way. And it was at the time. It is ironical to realise that the date of that architectural disaster of 1893 coincides with the date at which Frank Lloyd Wright opened his private architectural practice, after nearly seven years spent in the office of Adler and Sullivan, in Chicago.

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[@jbidwell605]

Fascinating video! you ask such great questions. I think Modernism probably (technically) started with the Crystal Palace,...but really took hold internationally with Bauhaus. They picked up what was possible materially with glass and steel and just ran with it! :) I love this channel, I'm so happy I found you.

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[@jamalgibson8139]

I find it really interesting that the "Modern" buildings in the 1800s still have beauty and ornamentation, but some time around the 50s "Modern" buildings just became gray boxes. I have a suspicion that this is due to Le Corbusier and his segregation of land uses, which allowed the gray box to become ubiquitous due to it being isolated from people's housing.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

this is a automatically false statement, you cannot say something "had" beauty with your own judgement, you do not put something subjective as beauty and say it so matter of fact like its objective, its your opinion bro

[@jamalgibson8139]

@@circleinforthecube5170 Nah, hard disagree here. There's a reason why so many Americans flock to cities like Paris for vacation, and it's because of the *objective* beauty around. There's actually a lot of evidence that beauty is more objective than subjective, especially when it comes to architecture and city design, but somewhere during the 50's we went hardcore into the "modern" world just for the sake of it.

[@kochenlover]

Thank you for the video. One note: Maybe you should alternate you emphasis when starting a new paragraph. You always start to emphasize the first 3 words in a paragraph and the next sentences are much more balanced and follow a natural emphasize flow. I hope you understand what I mean. Keep up the interesting videos :)

[@czarnaowca81]

Enjoyed it, as always. I'd pinpoint the beginning to the very moment Andrzej place an idea of a new style became a publicly used space, i.e. showroom, offices or housing.

[@boldvankaalen3896]

"When Did Modern Architecture Actually Begin?" The more relevant question is: when will it finally end?

[@RS-bw6ow]

Why?

[@boldvankaalen3896]

@@RS-bw6ow Because then we can have more humane architecture again.

[@Lilly-bo1mi]

@@boldvankaalen3896 I personally love modern architecture

[@bane1495]

@uvuweve osas i absolutely agree with you!But it will pass the test of time because it's economic!less money,less time

[@bigmack8307]

Hell yeah brother!I find it machinelike, unappealing, totalitarian, and depressing to think about for too long

[@shri03992]

I was missing a mention of the British Arts and Crafts movement and subsequent international reactions like Art Nouveau, Jugendstil and Wiener Werkstätte etc., as well as Gottfried Semper's highly influential theoretical work.

[@Leptospirosi]

Modern architecture started with the beginning from XX century: Sullivan and Loos foresaw the need for something new, but it wasn't until Berlage, Beherens, Perret and, to a minor extent Wright, founded the basis for what was formalized by Gropius and Le Corbusier. It's consequential to the fact the these later architects all worked as young apprentices at for the former architects. Gropius and Van De Rohe for Beherens and Le Corbusier for Perret. What in Architecture defines the begin of Modernism is the advent of armored concrete. As for what we define as "modern movement", the new architecture is defined by the duopole Gropius-LeCorbusier, because of the influence they had on every other with the writings and teachings: they were often conflicting with each other and yet they formalized what "Modernism" is

[@ericchristen2623]

As one prominent architect once said, skyscrapers are only fit to be prisons...

[@pollie1342]

Intresting video :) But there's a lot of debate about the use of the word "modern" and if it's the same as "modernism" For example: the spanish word "modernismo" is used for the art-nouveaus-like architecture of Gaudi, something we don't really associate with modernism. There's a lot to be said about this subject ;) I would love to hear you talk more about it.

[@ARTiculations]

Yes good point. One thing I didn't get to in this video is actually if you turn on the captions I use "modernism" with a small "m" for everything before 1919, and then Modernism with a big "M" for everything 1920 and later. This is a way of marking the change between modern buildings and "Modernism" as a stylistic movement. But I'm sure this way of classification is debatable too.

[@pollie1342]

ARTiculations Oh wow :) Really nice to see how much passion work you put into your videos and here in the comments! Keep doing what you do :D

[@pyrexmaniac]

The Equitable building of 1948 in Portland designed by Pietro Belluschi was a groundbreaking building in that it's glass skin was mounted flush on the steel skeleton, giving it a single-piece, "sheer" appearance. Sullivan's Prudential (Guarantee) building of 1896 in Buffalo was groundbreaking for it's purely decorative terra-cotta skin, which, along with the structures copper-framed windows, revealed not an inch of it's steel-frame structure. In this, the Guaranty was the first true steel-frame structure with a completely separate decorative skin, whose elements could easily be replaced. Another favorite of mine is the Philadelphia Savings fund society building of 1932 by Howe & Lescaze. This building was groundbreaking in it's unique, unmistakable "modern" appearance, by means of it's clean, rounded corners, including ribbon windows and continuous vertical elelements that drew the eye up to the prominent pinnacle with it's undeniably modern neon signage, visible for miles around.

[@lukasnovotny4095]

Well done, comprehensive and yet short!

[@wyalexlee8578]

Thanks a lot for the reference attached!!!!!!

[@vitorsantis6356]

Amazing video! Congratulations from Brazil.

[@kenkeep69]

Even though it was a fantasy design, I like to think of Etienne Louis Boulee's Cenotaph for Newton as one of the precursors to modernist design.

[@mikehenson819]

It became modern when technology advanced to the point of making possible modern building practices. So yes, the Crystal palace would indeed be considered a first, in my opinion.

[@magicknight13]

Amazing material! So grateful to my wonderful insightful Modern Architecture professor

[@SECONDQUEST]

Wow amazingly informative video! I've never seen your channel before now! Subbed and bell'd!

[@ARTiculations]

Aww thanks so much!! ❤️❤️

[@jmd1743]

I find it interesting how the pendulum is shifting where international design is being renovated to have a more classical features even if it's a veneer that's used to do so.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

eh this may occasionally happen but i dont see anything of mies or most big international buildings changing exterior looks at all

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This channel is a life saver :)

[@puppetguttv2754]

Fascinating video; Thank you for sharing! One point of contention, however (somewhat tangential): Modern engineered wood is catching up with steel in terms of structural possibilities and fire resistance, AND it is a much greener material because it actually sequesters carbon from the atmosphere.

[@GreatArtExplained]

Great overview. Thank you. I'm a big fan of modern architecture.

[@ARTiculations]

Thanks so much. More videos like this are in the works 😊

[@rosafriholm5916]

It is okay to be wrong.

[@rosafriholm5916]

..about modern architecture - the video was great

[@quentinsummers2531]

How could you possibly love modern architecture? Just go to your local town center and compare the old buildings with the boring ones next to them. Side-by-sides of the uglification of our countries are everywhere to be seen in europe.

[@vietinternational5746]

W opinion

[@khalilkhawer4146]

Amazing clip. I am an artist and am really inspired by this clip. I normally make pencil sketches if city architecturre

[@cnbee9703]

I highly recommend watching The Pruitt-Igoe Myth. Not exactly related to this video, but very important (and well done) nonetheless.

[@Ranjankumar-bo2hq]

Informative videos. Thanks

[@SylvainMenard]

Great video as always. To answer your question I would say yes because it's convenient to date stuff. But, as almost anything, if you want to be more precise, it has to be contextualize with the before and the after like you just did!

[@Storygleam777]

such a great video

[@DavidJGillCA]

When did modern architecture come to dominate new building construction? In the United States, this happened at the end of World Warr II and it was a top-down implementation supported by a consensus of influential individuals mostly from the academic world. Most notably, Walter Gropius came to Harvard and built the School of Environmental Design staffed entirely by committed modernists. Gropius enforced a requirement that all student work would be modernist in style and students who did not conform were purged. This sort of absolutist regime of modernism came to dominate every school of architecture in the nation as Gropius protegees filled teaching positions in American universities. The emergence of modernism as a dominant force in the post-war building boom can be seen by reviewing architectural journals from the period like Architectural Record, Architectural Forum, etc.

[@javierpacheco8234]

So modernists are totalitarian? Thats why most people disagree with me in saying that we should be build traditional architecture. They are anti traditional.

[@reffd1]

i think industrial revolution started a new era of architecture (modern architecture). your channel is sooooo good. love it

[@sifridbassoon]

I always thought "form follows function" came from the Bauhaus.

[@c.rutherford]

Though I'm a big fan of architecture, and came close to being an architect.....Louis Sullivan is one of the few celebrated 'modern' ones I like. Buildings like those done by Frank Lloyd Wright for instance... with their simplistic, boxy style may have been revolutionary and drawn crowds agape back in the days when their backdrop was cities full of grand old buildings. But so many since it seems have tried to cheat.... taking this concept overboard as a cost cutting measure. Simple and 'strikingly' modern has become not so striking these days, almost to the point of being mundane... and we now find ourselves surrounded by soulless glass cubes. And ironically, now treasuring the vanishing, stately old buildings once condemned as whatwas by the art experts before the I guess, modern revolution.

[@Fluwore]

Perfect Content! Thanks!

[@mikusporcus]

Nice video, well done

[@NCVBflo]

The thumbnail of the Guaranty building in Buffalo caught my attention.

[@jonsonronson7270]

Its not even modern in age or style thats a classically designed building n its damn fine! Not sure why its the thumbnail.

[@huajie666liu8]

Modern architecture in my eyes are departure from classical reference. Besides, materials are different? Glass, concrete steel, insulation material, living facilities, such as hot water, air conditioners, internet, natural gas. I like it very much, but i think what is more important is how people use it. Living in city like NY is not good because living downbelow feels like living in a prison. Walking in the streets can have pressure because everything is high. I think city planners can notice that people living quality is more important. Trees, humidity, how high the building, how dense the block, what color, what material, river element, noise control element, walkability, easy access, bike-friendly, etc...

[@TheDreadfulCurtain]

I would like to know how the breaking up of the majority of buildings by Landlords in cities is affecting people’s mental health, as demonstrated in Tom Nichols youtube video. This could only have been conceived by a landlord.

[@cameron.t]

Ironically enough, the Crystal Palace burned down

[@Strohkopfs]

as an architect i have to say: fking good summary :D

[@alfredvondrachstedt7129]

In Germany, Bauhaus planted the seed of Modern Architecture , but only in the aftermath of the war it grew, destroyed cities and big population shifts because of refugees were the perfect opportunity for utopian projects. the open spaces with seperated buildings were also seen as a good strategic advantage. Although no one said it out loud, they chose this design for it´s difficult distruction through bomb raids or nuclear bombs.

[@Broockle]

Nice video I think about how old buildings are that I walk by a lot and I'm wondering if there's a good resource that runs through every decade of the 20th century and highlights every architectural style that came about. Maybe also how these styles were implemented differently around the world.

[@MrOrcshaman]

so basically function before aesthetics. Problem with that is in having no aesthetically pleasing appearance, it leads to a greater depression within the masses.

[@henrydoake6659]

You should mention Adolf Loos and his work "Ornament and Crime". There is also another giant figure missing, but I will not tell because some things do not need to be "common" knowledge.

[@ayesha_h]

Would love to see a video on post modern architecture

[@ARTiculations]

There is one in the works! ;)

[@Pflunze]

Nice video, thanky you :) One small mistake i noticed: At 1:00 it should really say the industrial revolution took place from the mid 18th to the mid 19th century.

[@onetruekeeper]

The Minoans had some very modern looking buildings and they also had indoor plumbing with hot and cold water.

[@jimlingerfelt9367]

Totally love your series. Absorbing all of them. I just wish you would slow down the slide show. I want to read the captions. I don’t need graphics of the Chicago Fire for example. SLOW DOWN. I want to digest all you have to offer.

[@GregAllen-k1n]

good video!

[@javierpacheco8234]

We should really go into a arts and crafts movement in architecture. The techonlogy today is awesome, i just don't understand why we can't build beautiful when building tech is so much better.

[@Ayn_Rando]

The birth of the International style as coined by Philip Johnson really defined and amalgamated the concept of architecture as utilitarian. The construction of brasilia cemented its most vanguardist ideas and post modernism and brutalism diverged from the purity of ideas and philosophy from people like mies, le corbusier, and gropius. What preceded it was not modern architecture. It was the early adoption of modern building methods and and experimenting with how they would of the would. Loved the video

[@cseblivestreaming]

Interesting video!

[@selfmaker1]

Great video :D

[@howelltaylor6774]

Modern Architecture has been a blight on humanity ever sense its conception. Thank you for telling me about Bauhaus now I know the name of the idiot that has ruined architecture for generations as well as L'esprit Nouvveau, Sir Roger Scuton was correct in his assessment of modern brutal design, Worthless.

[@dynaco]

No Frank Lloyd Wright? He is the essential link between the Chicago School and the early 20th century European modernists..

[@ARTiculations]

Had a part about FLW where I mentioned this connection. ended up cutting that part out due to time and it just didn’t have the right flow in the video.

[@henrydoake6659]

Yes, Prairie style is very "modern"

[@nicolasarnal4576]

Nice video, though you got the name of the architect of the Crystal Palace wrong. It's actually Joseph Paxton. John Paxton (as shown on the video) is an actor.

[@09baskinrobb09]

I am a graduate student studying philosophy and for my capstone paper I am writing about modern skyscrapers. In your video, you cite the paper "Lesprit Neauvou," saying that architectural design should be divorced from historical references. Can you please send me the full title of the paper? I would love to read it, and I think it would be a great piece to analyze for my essay.

[@harveyreadable]

1922 - Schindler House

[@SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand]

Modernism began in the early 20th century, but it was influencing architecture by the 1920s with Art Deco, and plunged into full modernism by the late 1940s-1950s.

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[@zhonglaizhu5049]

反正在教材里是透平机车间的诞生

[@noobiesmurf]

It's the tree that matters not the seed, the idea doesn't matter until its realised, until then it can be rejected or changed.

[@YuriRadavchuk]

There was this cultural shift parallel to the Industrial Revolution called Modernism. By saying Modern, the scholars generally mean related to modernism not contemporary or non-outdated.

[@mansardmanor3869]

As the ages pass us by; how long will we reference this era as *Modern*

[@calvinragg5435]

Modern architecture will always change as it refers to the current time/ the now. Where as modernism architecture will always be a fixed period in history as it refers to a particular theoretical architectural movement in a ‘specific’ time in history such a Baroque Architecture, Neoclassical Architecture or Art Deco. (This is a very basic description being typed during the early hours of the morning haha). A couple of years ago one of our questions in a theory paper was to describe the meaning of the terms modern, modernism and modernity which was a bit of a bitch to answer. Haha

[@chrisalex001]

I think everything has its place. Classic architecture can be great for many public buildings and sometimes houses. Modern architecture is also good for modern museums and galleries, as well as opera houses and office buildings. I don't agree with the notion that a city must only have one kind of architecture, be it old or new.

[@gent1eman1]

We have to define what is meand as modern. When did the modern times began? For every one modern is located in a different time of our epoque. To me modern times began after the first world war. That‘s because the difference of technological and social elements in life before and after this this era (1914-1918) was the biggest. The WW1 created the greatest gap between the time before and after this dramatic event, also in architecture.

[@retak4110]

What architectural style/wave uses bricks and concrete? without paint or anything on

[@thomaskelly5183]

Almost all of them. Exceptions being before 1800s where it was only coated to appear like concrete

[@tiaramaars]

it's called brutalism

[@mattwolf7698]

I hate cheap looking apartment buildings like "The Projects" in New York for example and modern subdivisions with many literally identical houses are boring but I love modern "minimal" architecture that's currently used a lot. I also like historical architecture but honestly a lot of that can look pretty similar to other buildings built back then to. Trends just come and go. Frank Lloyd Wright designed a lot of stuff I like, I consider the 50's to be when modern architecture really took off.

[@dennisashley7319]

It depends from what era you came from… A constructed structure was modern if you lived in a cave. A brick structure was modern if you lived in thatch. The pueblos of New Mexico where modern if you lived in caves…

[@jorgeoliveira2383]

Spread of its ideas to the masses

[@dutchymon]

Property taxes are the reason we have bare essential modern architecture, opulence and ornamentation are penalized by Government bureaucrats. Property taxes began after WW1 and killed off classic design elements.

[@JarrodBaniqued]

I’d say the time when the Chicago School began to turn to facades dominated by glass curtain walls would be when Modernism truly began. Halfway between the first skyscraper in 1885 and the Sullivan essay in 1896. The Gage Group buildings, in my opinion, were the culmination of the School.

[@JarrodBaniqued]

Patriotis It was built in the 1900s. I don’t know where it would fit in Modernism, as it still had a prominent Beaux-Arts and Gothic influence at the top, but huge glass windows at its midsection. Same goes for all American buildings named Singer.

[@thequietstag4366]

I don't particularly care about when or how it started, but I do care about how ridiculously stupid modern buildings tend to look. For example, I look at the Freedom Tower and I don't think of freedom, or America, or those who died or 9/11; I think of what I'm seeing: a big, stupid glass box. On the other hand, mid-rise neoclassical/classical buildings look epic. I think of many things when I see them: what every motif means, and so on. All in all, these buildings look absolutely EPIC!!! Great video, btw.

[@jonsonronson7270]

The thumbnail is of a classically designed skyscraper not modern in style or age. Not sure why thats the thumbnail other than its a lovely looking building . even on a video about modern architecture they use classical design in the thumbnail because they know that will get clicks. Its a damn fine building too . wish there was more built now but hey profit motives gunna destroy beauty.

[@vladimirbmp]

I'm so happy I subbed to your channel. Love this vid, and your content in general. xoxo

[@ImpeRiaLismus]

I wish Modern architecture never happened.

[@javierpacheco8234]

Sorry man it happened unfortunately.

[@disinterested0]

Modern architecture began in antiquity. It is not break from the past. It is very much referencing it. Trying to find the essence of a classical building so much so that it scorns detail, ornamentation as well as any formal rules that obscure perception.