modern architecture, n.Definitions

Modern architecture is the absence of style.

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude.

Modern architecture is a representation of a dissatisfaction with existing conditions.

Modern architecture is dissatisfied with existing conditions. It attempt to change the existing environment rather than enhance what is there.

Modern architecture should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigor and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

Modern architecture is definitionally uncomfortable — if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modem architecture.

Modern architecture is a blight of colossal boxes that, from the 1950s through the 1970s, mysteriously sprouted and proliferated in the business districts of cities throughout the civilized world, making them visually interchangeable-and aesthetically uninhabitable-for centuries to come.