Talk:International style (architecture)

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Contents 1 comments 2 Edit this city 3 Fair use rationale for Image:S Weissenhofb.jpg 4 International style (architecture) International Style 4.1 Outcome

[edit] comments

I'm not sure exactly how "International style" is used in English, but, according to my Swedish language sources, the term was originally used for functionalist architecture during the 20s and 30s, but today instead refers to the architecture that spread internationally after WW2 and became the dominant style during the period 1950-70.
So, if this applies to the English language as well, this article should deal with Le Corbusiers buildings in Marseille and India; Niemeyers in Brasilia; the UN HQ, etc. The information present in the article now should then be moved to Functionalism (architecture).
Note: In a Swedish context, within the field of history of architecture, "funktionalism" refers to a style in architecture in Sweden during the 30s and only during that period. Swedes in general, on the other hand, tends to call whatever they intepret as "modern architecture" "funktionalism" or, in everyday usage, just "funkis".
/ Mats Halldin 14:25, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edit this city

I can't possibly edit this article! Modern design -- stemming from the vaguely idealistic Mies and Co. and breeding like pod people all the way down to the direct insult of Ikea -- is chiefly responsible for the miserable, unlivable cities we of the 21st Century have inherited from the 20th.

I can't edit this article; but you can, perhaps. And if you're thinking it might be entirely within our guidelines to balance the tolerant worship of this page with a little criticism from respected sources (you'll find a great deal of it), then I won't revert it. John Reid 11:59, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Seconded. The logical fallacy of form follows function is an example of where this type of architecture goes horribly wrong --Cnadolski 04:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:S Weissenhofb.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] International style (architecture) International Style