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The history of modernism

This section will look at the history of modernism and modernist theory and will explore how gender affected the story of modernism. The modernist movement can be seen to lie in the emergence during 1900 – 1914. The late 19th century saw Neo Gothic and Neo Baroque begin to lose their definition degenerating into an elaboration, which demonstrated little capacity for achieving architectural expression.

At the turn of the century Art started to analyse its own forms especially in architecture in response to the collapse of cultural, spiritual and moral order and the increase of science and technology and modernism. Architectures set out to endow architecture with a controlling power so it could create its own destiny as well as its inhabitants. Sparke,P (1995). Architectural modernism according to Sparke,P (1995)

“Set out to control not only the material chaos and fragmentation that resulted from the process of modernisation but also the alienation of the modern man (women were rarely discussed in this context”

One could suggest evidence for the movement’s essential masculine perspective being the repeated emphasis upon rationalisation, standardisation, objectivity and functionality, which ran through modern

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