Styles of Modern Architecture

The Modernist Influence.

During the 1960s modernist architecture was still a widespread and powerful force. Buildings in the modernist style were part of the environment of virtually every urban area in America, and new ones were being erected every day. Although it was becoming increasingly evident that modernism had failed to meet its idealistic goals of raising the human spirit, it was still a basically good style and method in which to construct buildings. However, by the 1960s the modernist style began to be recognized as just one of many possible approaches. Throughout the decade architects began to branch out in various directions.

Brutalism.

Some of the new stylistic options were not too far removed from the modernist style. Several architects, inspired by the late works of the French modernist Le Corbusier, created buildings that used many of the rational structural ideas of the modernist style. Instead of...

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