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. COUNT 5
QSN1 What made it possible to design architecture through new means and methods? ANS1 the Industrial Revolution QSN2 What new type of construction allowed the making of skyscrapers? ANS2 steel-frame construction QSN3 What style came after Modernism? ANS3 International Style QSN4 What is an example of International Style? ANS4 Twin Towers QSN5 Who designed the Twin Towers? ANS5 Minoru Yamasaki