INTERNATIONAL STYLE Definition & Meaning

International Style

noun

the general form of architecture developed in the 1920s and 1930s by Gropius, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and others, characterized by simple geometric forms, large untextured, often white, surfaces, large areas of glass, and general use of steel or reinforced concrete construction.
(sometimes lowercase) any of various 20th-century styles in art, as cubism or abstract expressionism, that have gained wide currency in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and elsewhere.
International Gothic.

International Style

noun

a 20th-century architectural style characterized by undecorated rectilinear forms and the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete

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Origin of International Style¹

First recorded in 1930–35

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Many of the International Style buildings in downtown L.A. inspired a handful of sketches providing a glimpse into Hockney’s first impressions of the city.

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Their Palm Beach, especially the Dellacorte mansion, reflected the maximalist, international style of decorator Tony Duquette and his famed Dawnridge Beverly Hills estate.

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Before becoming an architect at age 37, Johnson ran the architecture department at MoMA, and the spare, luminous building, which he inhabited for over half a century, embodies the Modernist International Style that he helped define in a landmark exhibition at the museum in 1932.

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The Aluminaire House, one of the earliest and edgiest examples of the International Style of modernist architecture in America, was never meant to withstand a harsh desert climate.

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Her collections are “as likely to draw upon refined Ngil masks, spare 17th-century ironwork, or elegant Shaker basketry as the International Style.”

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