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The Industrial Revolution transformed economies

1750
that had been based on agriculture and
handicrafts into economies based on large-scale
industry, mechanized manufacturing, and the
factory system. New machines, new power
sources, and new ways of organizing work made
existing industries more productive and efficient.

1789
The French Revolution was a period of radical
political and societal change in France that began
with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the
formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.

1890
The Arts and Crafts movement was an international
trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed
earliest and most fully in the British Isles and
subsequently spread across the British Empire and to
the rest of Europe and America.

Cubism architecture borrowed heavily from cubist art

1907
regarding geometric forms and shapes. At first, this
manifested itself in the design of radical experimental
buildings. The most common characteristics shared
were transparency, spatial ambiguity, form-faceting,
and multiplicity.

Rationalism is an architectural current which mostly

1920
developed from Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. Vitruvius had
claimed in his work De architectura that architecture is a
science that can be comprehended rationally. This
formulation was taken up and further developed in the
architectural treatises of the Renaissance. Progressive art
theory of the 18th-century opposed the Baroque use of
illusionism with the classic beauty of truth and reason.

1910
Expressionist architecture was an architectural
movement in Europe during the first decades of the
20th century in parallel with the expressionist visual
and performing arts that especially developed and
dominated in Germany

1920
Modernism was a global movement in architecture
that emerged in the 1920s as a response to social
needs and changes caused by industrialization.

1920
The International Style or internationalism is a major
architectural style that was developed in the 1920s
and 1930s and was closely related to modernism and
modern architecture.

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Art Deco is a popular design style of the 1920s
and '30s characterized especially by sleek
geometric or stylized forms and by the use of
man-made materials. Chicago Board of Trade.

1920
De Stijl, meaning 'Style' was a modern art movement
developed in the Netherlands in the early twentieth
century. Encompassing painting, architecture and
design, de Stijl was founded by Piet Mondrian and
Theo van Doesberg in 1917 based upon strict ideals of
vertical and horizontal geometry.

Constructivist architecture, or ‘constructivism’, is a

1920
form of modern architecture that developed in the
Soviet Union in the 1920s. Inspired by the Bauhaus and
the wider constructivist art movement that emerged
from Russian Futurism, constructivist architecture is
characterised by a combination of modern
technology and engineering methods and the socio-
political ethos of Communism.

Minimalist architecture, sometimes referred to as

1950
'minimalism', involves the use of simple design
elements, without ornamentation or decoration.
Proponents of minimalism believe that condensing the
content and form of a design to its bare essentials,
reveals the true 'essence of architecture'

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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theartstory.org
wikipedia.org
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