Instead of looking backward for inspiration, they began to look forward.Įuropean architects such as Adolph Loos, Otto Wagner, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Eric Mendelson, and Walter Gropius were early proponents of modern philosophies. The slavish adherence to historical forms was slowly abandoned. They began searching for a new language that expressed a more honest reflection of the contemporary world. When confidence in Renaissance values began to erode, architects asked why they were imitating the architecture of the past. At the time, many buildings were still referencing forms of the past, most notably from the Renaissance. Modernism began as a rejection of historical tenants and imitations of past forms. Ornamentation and historical detailing on these buildings is often minimized, abstracted, or removed entirely. The buildings that resulted from these ideas could all be strongly associated with the notions of progress, technological advancement, industrialization, and the development of new building materials. However, several independent strands of ideas were developing in Europe around the turn of the century (the 1800s-1900s) that show a clear connection to the movement. There is no clear beginning or singular building that can be marked as the start of modernism in architecture.
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