![]() ![]() The expressionist movement can be accurately linked to a particular setting within the modern architecture movement. ![]() He notes it steps away from functional and rational styles of architecture, and adopts an artistic abstraction in sync with the development of new art and literature in Germany. has usually been defined in terms of what it is not (rationalism, functionalism, and so on) rather than what it is.” 1Īlan Colquhoun’s definition of expressionist architecture in his book Modern Architecture (2002) leans towards defining the movement in its broadest terms. “Both German Expressionism and Italian Futurism started as movements in the visual arts and literature, though they soon attracted architects dissatisfied both with a moribund Jugendstil and its neoclassical alternative…. ![]()
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