Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was
an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and
innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of
glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form should
follow function (functionalism); an embrace of minimalism; and a
rejection of ornament. It emerged in the first half of the 20th
century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s, when
it was gradually replaced as the principal style for institutional and
corporate buildings by postmodern architecture.
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