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Architecture (3555 words) |
 | Modern architecture is inspired by modern materials and technology, and by the function of the building itself. |
| The greatest change in architecture in the 19th century was the raising of office buildings to a status once held only by palaces and churches. |
| In architecture, this was reflected in the high-rise development of the downtown core of the large cities. |
| Modern Architecture - MSN Encarta (1220 words) |
| Among notable early modern architectural projects are exuberant and richly decorated buildings in Glasgow, Scotland, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh; imaginative designs for a city of the future by Italian visionary Antonio Sant’Elia; and houses with flowing interior spaces and projecting roofs by the American pioneer of modernism, Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| As the 20th century began they believed it was necessary to invent an architecture that expressed the spirit of a new age and would surpass the styles, materials, and technologies of earlier architecture. |
| He attributed his new architectural concepts to educational building blocks he had played with as a child, to Japanese architecture, and to the prairie landscape on which many of his houses were built. |
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