The Day Modern

Architecture Died
"Happily, it is possible to date
the death of Modern
Architecture to a precise
moment in time. Modern
Architecture died in St. Louis,
Missouri on July 15, 1972 at
3:32pm.
Students at the Bauhaus school of design were taught purity of form
and to design for a better world by Walter Gropius. The phrase ‘form
follows function’ is often used when discussing the principles of
modernism.
Paul Greenhalgh outlined key features in
modernist design including function, progress,
anti-historicism and social morality
The modernist ideals were not applied to social housing until 1937,
when Maxwell Fry’s Kensal House in London applied the principles of
the movement to a social housing scheme.
One successful project by the architect Ralph Eskrine was the Byker Housing project in
Newcastle, which began in the 1960s.