This Article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine here. The story of architectural Modernism in New York City goes beyond the familiar touchstones of Lever House and the Seagram Building.

The streamlined forms, the emphasis on planes and lines, the form-follows-function mentality: all tenets of architectural modernism. At the same time, though, it’s not so easy to define what is ...

Much of the literary and cultural theory developed throughout the twentieth century relied on modernist texts and artefacts as both example and paradigm. This Dictionary collects, categorises and ...

In November of 1938, when Ruth Adler Schnee was 15 years old, Nazi soldiers smashed the windows of her family home in Dusseldorf, Germany. They wrenched the doors off their hinges, shattered the ...

Tourists flock to Miami Beach to stroll the streets lined with the city-defining art deco design. But the wave of permanent transplants to the city is staying for the tropical modernism that has for ...

Modern design is one of those terms in home decor that feels like a moving target. Modern, by its definition according to Webster's Dictionary, is "of, relating to, or characteristic of the present or ...