A guide to modern architecture and design for Livingetc magazine. 

I researched and wrote a guide to modernist architecture and design styles for Livingetc. You can read it, in full, here and find a snippet below.

Modern architectural styles dominated 20th century architecture and transformed the skylines of cities around the globe. And it still influences our homes today. Pioneering architects – Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Walter Gropius – led the modernist movement with a design philosophy that jettisoned ornament and embraced minimalism. Clean-lines, flat roofs, open-plan interiors and expansive windows to maximise natural light characterised the modern style. Alongside architecture, designers made functional furnishings to fit these free-flowing spaces. These pieces are now highly collectable, like Eero Saarinen’s Tulip table and the Charles and Ray Eames Lounge Chair. Through the eras, the modern aesthetic shifted with the times. Art Deco was more decorative, then Bauhaus presented a starker, unadorned architecture that shaped the next waves of modernism, from Mid-Century Modern to Brutalism.