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Architecture 101: What is Modern Architecture?

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Modern architecture originated in the early twentieth century in Europe and later expanded worldwide, particularly in the United States, where many European architects emigrated. Modernism reacted against nineteenth-century historical architectural styles, such as Neoclassicism and Revivalism. Moscow, Russia. |

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Thomas Phifer uses white concrete to create boxy Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

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US architect Thomas Phifer has unveiled the Museum of Modern Art in central Warsaw , which resembles two giant boxes stacked on top of each other. Phifer said the staircase at the Museum of Modern Art (MSN) was designed to function as "a playful social space for people to stop and talk".

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Ten notable projects by 2025 Royal Gold Medal-winner SANAA

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Among the studio's key projects are the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, which is composed of a low-lying circular structure wrapped with glass, and the stepped Sydney Modern gallery in Australia. Alongside its central art galleries, it hosts public spaces including a library, lecture hall and children's workshop.

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Zaha Hadid's Bergisel Ski Jump was the most significant building of 2002

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Although the project didn't end up being built, it in part led to her inclusion in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1988, where she featured alongside Frank Gehry , Rem Koolhaas , Daniel Libeskind , Peter Eisenman and Coop Himmelb(l)au.

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Anna Heringer's Anandaloy was the most significant building of 2020

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We continue our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series with the Anandaloy centre in Bangladesh by Studio Anna Heringer , a pioneering project for the revival of mud construction in contemporary architecture. Mud is regarded as a poor and old-fashioned material and inferior to brick, for example," said the studio. "But

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Andrés Jaque's Reggio School was the most significant building of 2022

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The Madrid Reggio School does this in a way that aligns with the best intentions and examples of modernism." Reggio School was one of seven projects shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award, in 2024. The illustration is by Jack Bedford and the photography is by Jos Hevia.

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The Grand Palais was the most significant building of 2024

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It is a fitting end to our series, which began with the Tate Modern an art gallery in the shell of an abandoned power station completed in 2000 by Herzog & de Meuron. Its building services have also been modernised, bringing the building up to the standards of a modern-day events venue.