The Modernism Movement

Modernism cannot be defined as strictly an architectural change, thus we cannot limit the influences merely to other works and ideas, although existing works no doubt contributed. Architectural Modernism is, generally speaking, a review of the basics of architecture, creating a simpler, more efficient design. Technology also provided design with more possibilities; it was now possible to think 'outside the square'. Modernism was influenced by the depression after the Great War, not that of the …

…students learnt how to create crafts stimulated by art. The Bauhaus also had a revolutionary political side to it, which provided each student with some inspiration. Modernism was a social revisiting of ideology. There were many factors contributing to it, for the most part they can be summarised as technology, other architects and the Great War. Each one influenced Modernism in a different way, without any one of these Modernism wouldn't have been the same.