The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · I

International Style

The name given in 1932 by Hitchcock and Johnson to the modern architecture of the 1920s, defined by volume, regularity and the absence of ornament.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters The Modern Movement, The Contemporary, The Americas.

Nearby in the glossary

Inset corner · Insula · Intercolumniation · Interior street · Intrados · Ionic · Irimoya · Isodomum