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This 5-page paper describes the modernism and post-modernism architecture that popped up in the quarter century following the end of World War II. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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representation of what goes on in society is the field of architecture. Architecture is interesting, because its a type of art that is actually combined with a strong function. But
because architecture is so driven by demand, it also shows a good perspective of what society was about and how it lived during various periods of time.
In this paper, well examine architectural styles in a 25-year period following World War II. To do that, it might be interesting to see what
happened to buildings both during and just before the war -- it was actually before the war that modernism was born. During
the 1920s, the school or architectural thought emerged that building forms should be determined by function, rather than being determined as a "heavy mass made of ponderous materials" (The Columbia
Encyclopedia, 2001). Instead, architecture moved more toward buildings as space and light, enclosed by modern-looking structures (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2001). During the 1930s, ever increasing technological developments continued having a
huge impact on architectural designs -- particularly when it came to prefabricated construction (The Columbia Encyclopedia, 2001). Then came World War II
and its aftermath. In Europe, architecture was characterized as the desire to get buildings rebuild as quickly as possible in as efficient an inexpensive a manner as possible (Architectural Review).
While the building method was effective, the results were rather spartan (Architectural Review, 1996). In Britain, especially, the immediate post-war years saw
buildings that went up that might have been functional, but seemed lifeless and utilitarian -- almost a direct contrast of the lavish ornamentation of just a few years before (Architectural
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