the Industrial Revolution steel-frame construction International Style Twin Towers Minoru Yamasaki
What made it possible to design architecture through new means and methods? What new type of construction allowed the making of skyscrapers? What style came after Modernism? What is an example of International Style? Who designed the Twin Towers?
Architects such as Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer worked to create beauty based on the inherent qualities of building materials and modern construction techniques, trading traditional historic forms for simplified geometric forms, celebrating the new means and methods made possible by the Industrial Revolution, including steel-frame construction, which gave birth to high-rise superstructures. By mid-century, Modernism had morphed into the International Style, an aesthetic epitomized in many ways by the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center designed by Minoru Yamasaki.
question: What made it possible to design architecture through new means and methods?, answer: the Industrial Revolution | question: What new type of construction allowed the making of skyscrapers?, answer: steel-frame construction | question: What style came after Modernism?, answer: International Style | question: What is an example of International Style?, answer: Twin Towers | question: Who designed the Twin Towers?, answer: Minoru Yamasaki