modern architecture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandarchitecture
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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architecture
noun[U]
uk/ˈɑː.kɪ.tek.tʃər/us/ˈɑːr.kə.tek.tʃɚ/
the art and practice of designing and ...
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(Definition ofmodernandarchitecturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is a strong statement ofmodernarchitectureat the service of engineering.
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The contrast of the white tile wall and the black-framed large window array in the facade represents the clarity and simplicity ofmodernarchitecture.
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In order to discreditmodernarchitecture, he needed to ratify its antithesis.
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They could aim to create the fear in people that if they buildmodernarchitecture, their buildings will be destroyed.
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It was a summer-long success:modernarchitecturein holiday mood won acclaim, both critical and popular.
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So let us remind ourselves what happened (all of which a lecturer on the subject ofmodernarchitectureand industrial art must constantly repeat).
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The irony is that, as a consequence of this conflict,modernarchitecturenever seemed more formidable, even threatening in outline, and more sophisticated in details.
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This restatement would have defined architecture more broadly and architectural theory more inclusively than the conventional histories ofmodernarchitecturehave done.
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Modernarchitecturewas not alone in prompting these changes.
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Indeed,modernarchitectureis now relatively popular, whereas only 10 years ago it was at its lowest ebb.
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Meticulously constructed heritage villages contrast with often extraordinary examples ofmodernarchitecture and with areas of pristine natural and inhabited places.
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It was within these new spaces that european-style boulevards, parks, andmodernarchitecturewere then constructed.
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Second, with some manipulation,modernarchitecture, as it turned out, could also be good publicity.
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The category in question is of coursemodernarchitecture, for which the evocative title of the book is just another name.
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And it then becomes possible to take for granted the unity of the concept ofmodernarchitecture, right across boundaries and decades.
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She has been working on the relationship between internal politics andmodernarchitecturesince 1999.
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The disintegration ofmodernarchitectureseems to call for such a strategy; an enlightened pluralism seems to invite; and, possibly, even common sense concurs.
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More progressive architects saw competitions as a way of giving a chance to the younger generation and of giving an outlet formodernarchitecture.
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This was intriguing partly because it echoed the feeling of architects in the 1930s thatmodernarchitecture had reached a level of maturity and now needed aesthetic elaboration.
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