'MIESIAN': A PROPOSAL FOR AN ALTERNATIVE NAME OF 'INTERNATIONAL STYLE 'IN THE 20th CENTURY

摘要

The name of “International Style” comes from The InternationalStyle, Architecture since 1922 of Henry-Russell Hitchcock andPhilip Johnson accompanying with the 1932 MoMA’s “ModernArchitecture: International Exhibition.” “International Style”shows the main feature of the 20th century architecture and isgenerally used to mean architecture which was established in the1920s and 1930s. “International Style” has nothing to do with thetraditional historical architectural forms and has literally aspecific common appearance between nations.