Modernism
The early-to-mid twentieth century movement: form led by function, structure left legible, ornament refused on principle.
- Also called
- modernist · international style
- Seen in the wild
- None
- Broader
- None
- Narrower
- Mid-Century Modern · Organic Modernism
- Usage
- Withheldfrom designshop room schemesDesignShop tags a dominant share of its room schemes `Modern`, but that is the crosswalk row that declines: `Modern` reads as either this term or `style.contemporary`, and the source never recorded which. Attributing the usage here would smuggle in the guess the crosswalk refused to make.
- Provenance
- evidencedarchitizer, materia, 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 reading it.
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- style.modernism
- Note
- 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.
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300021472 | International Style (modern European architecture style) | closeMatch |