Q: What are the origin of the international style? Who lead it and how it expended?
A: The international style was born in Western Europe in the 1920s School of Bauhaus. From the precedent breaking work of noted architects le Corbusier in France, and Walter Gropius and Mies van Der Rohe in Germany. Many of European architects came to the United States in the period preceding World War II and bringing the ideas about modern design and expended here.
Q: How can we identify if a building is international style. What characteristic does it consists of?
A: International style consist a new modern form that is rectangular and often with round projections. Most of the international style building are flat roof with lack of ornamentation or decorative details. Many of the building use ribbon windows and curtain walls of glass. Cantilevered projections. Covered with smooth wall surfaces and asymmetrical facade for its modern look. International style building are meant to be design for any urban city.
Q: Names of building heavily influenced with international style movement in New York City.
A: In the early movement of international style. we have film guide cinema by Frederick John Kiesler in 1929 and McGraw-Hill building by Raymond Hood in 1931. However. which building heavily influenced and known for international style are buildings like Lever building by SOM in 1952 and Seagram building by Mies Van Der Rohe in 1958.
