Organic Modernism
Modernism whose forms derive from natural growth and site rather than from the grid: continuous curves, building and ground treated as one.
How it connects
Organic Modernism is a kind of Modernism.
Other kinds of Modernism: Critical Regionalism and Mid-Century Modern.
In other taxonomies
- organic architectureGetty AAT, 300056452nearly the same
- organic architectureWikidata, Q36118nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
Organic Modernism
3 terms, Mid-Century Modern to Organic Modernism
Record
- Seen in the wild
- Organic · quiet_organic
- Broader
- Modernism
- Provenance
- vendoredSTYLES in an architecture-projects platform (src-01), 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/organic-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
- narrowerModernismincoming
- belongs-to-axisStyleoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetStyleoutgoing
- broaderModernismoutgoing
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Modernismoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Critical Regionalismoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Mid-Century Modernoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300056452 | organic architecture | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q36118 | organic architecture | nearly the same |