Modernism
The early-to-mid twentieth century movement: form led by function, structure left legible, ornament refused on principle.
Also called modernist, international style.
How it connects
Modernism includes Critical Regionalism, Mid-Century Modern and Organic Modernism.
Modernism influenced Brutalism and Postmodernism.
In other taxonomies
- ModernistGetty AAT, 300021474nearly the same
- International Style (modern European architecture style)Getty AAT, 300021472nearly the same
- modernismWikidata, Q878985nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
22 terms, Minimalism to Constructivism
Narrower than Modernism
Record
NOT the consumer sense of "modern". A consumer calling a room modern usually means it is current and clean-lined, which is contemporary here. The two are separate terms and the crosswalk from an ambiguous source label declines rather than guessing. See ADR 0001.
- Also called
- modernist · international style
- Narrower
- Critical Regionalism · Mid-Century Modern · Organic Modernism
- Usage
- Withheldfrom room schemes in a furnishings retailer (src-03)The furnishings retailer tags a dominant share of its room schemes
Modern, but that is the crosswalk row that declines:Modernreads as either this term orstyle.contemporary, and the source never recorded which. Attributing the usage here would smuggle in the guess the crosswalk refused to make. - Provenance
- evidencedan architecture-projects platform (src-01) and a rendering pipeline (src-08), read 21 Aug 2026
- Kind
- MovementA declared movement with an art-historical record behind it. A disagreement about its edges is a disagreement about that record, and is settled by meaning it.
For machines
Permanent address
/id/style/modernismKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptStyleincoming
- has-conceptStyleincoming
- influenced-byBrutalismincoming
- broaderCritical Regionalismincoming
- broaderMid-Century Modernincoming
- belongs-to-axisStyleoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetStyleoutgoing
- influencesBrutalismoutgoing
- influencesPostmodernismoutgoing
- narrowerCritical Regionalismoutgoing
- narrowerMid-Century Modernoutgoing
- narrowerOrganic Modernismoutgoing
- broaderOrganic Modernismincoming
- influenced-byPostmodernismincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- descendant (derived)Critical Regionalismoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Mid-Century Modernoutgoing
- descendant (derived)Organic Modernismoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300021474 | Modernist | nearly the same |
| Getty AAT | 300021472 | International Style (modern European architecture style) | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q878985 | modernism | nearly the same |