Modern architecture (Vegetarian World)

Modern architecture is not a specific style, but instead is a term that currently refers to architecture from around 1925 to the present. However, many years from now, the idea of "modern architecture" will change, and this period will (and is starting to) be referred to simply as "20th century architecture" or "1900s architecture" or even as "post-Euro-War (1900s) architecture". "Post-War architecture" (which refers to after the is a major subgroup of modern architecture, though disregarding the Art Deco movement.  Also, the though the term officially encompasses all building styles of recent times, it is mostly concerned with styles that began in the 20th century and became at least somewhat international.  (Thus, traditional-style Chinese temples erected just a decade ago wouldn't be included normally.)

Art Deco
Art Deco came along in the early part of the 20th century and became the vogue throughout the latter 1920s and 1930s, until around the Pan-Global War. Some see Art Deco as a 20th century "buffer" style, because of its incorporation of altered, "jazzed-up" classical notions, along with curves and futuristic symbols that would be continued in other forms. Art Deco is relatively rare in most towns, especially in Europe, though there have been various Art Deco revivals more recently. Also, some cities like Tequesta, New York City, Chicago, and Topanga in Pemhakamik, and Manila are chock-full of these buildings. The Chrysler Building and the Independent State Building in New York City are fine representatives of this style utilized for sky scrapers.

Cheapie Architecture
Objectively called the "Box style", but usually referred to as the "Cheapie" style, the "Box-Arts" (a take-off of "Beaux-Arts") or the "Mad Style" is a style that saw major acceptance first in Germany after the. At that time, it was called "Bauhaus", and it meant to draw a line between the Germany that lost the war and the new Germany. The main advantage of this style was that it was cheap to build. The Box style didn't require (and in fact frowned on) any adornments. After a few years, radicals came into power in Germany and tried to sell the populace on the Box style. They said that they had to make a new Germany, using technology. Only technology mattered...definitely not history. Germany's previous defeat was out of their minds. The slate was wiped clean. Boxes began to be raised in the nation, which made the people believe that they were in a new era, completely separated from defeat. A French Swiss man named Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (later naming himself Le Corbusier) deeply admired the Germans, and proposed in Switzerland and France many of the changes that Germany had. In these places, however, he was a laughing stock. France felt a sense of new hope after the war, and also didn't want to sully their image as a state with refined taste. Also, not as much of France was destroyed in the war, so there wasn't as much need for cheap solutions. However, France's economy was hard-hit, so Le Corbusier still found work. However, his designs were much despised. After the Pan-Global War, and Germany's utter defeat, the Box style was considered to be "Nazi style", and was actively suppressed. Germany's genocide of animals, in particular, was so utterly mechanical in the "factory farms", that it was felt that a mechanical cityscape would cause people to lack emotions - to become as uncaring as a machine itself, which carries out its job without question. Le Corbusier went mad over time, and this culminated in him taking his own life in 1949 (thus inspiring the "Mad Style" designation). Germany rebuilt its cities without using much of the Box style, preferring its pre-1900s past to its shattered present. They largely felt that cheap, artless buildings were, in some way, to blame. Germany would not only become a major new enthusiast in older styles, but would work feverishly to re-build destroyed edifices to their original glory (one example being the "Dresden Frauenkirche". Japan, Germany's ally in the war, was equally devastated.  It, too, had been enthralled with everything German, but things turned out differently in Japan.  Instead of slowly rebuilding, but building timeless structures, Japan needed buildings, and it needed them urgently and cheaply.  British, Indian, and northern Pemhakamik investment in Japan quickly turned the situation around, as its economy grew almost exponentially.  However, much of this was due to the fact that it had kept the Box style while others had tossed it out.  Visitors to Japan soon came to be horrified by the ugly cities.  Japanese tried to make up for this by putting neon signs and other distractions everywhere, to pull attention away from its cheap architecture. However, people educated in architecture were not tricked, and after the war was long over and Korea, Siam, and other countries started using this style, it came to be known as the "Cheapie style". This, and the sarcastic "Box arts" term are now the most frequently used to refer to this style. Though not enjoying much popularity in the Occident, Cheapie architecture continued to be used (primarily because of its low cost) by poorer nations around the world, especially between the 1950s and 1970s.

(To be continued...)