THE IDEAS OF MODERNISM IN ARCHITECTURE AND THE URBAN SPACE OF EUROPEAN CITIES

BOGNA LUDWIG

 

ABSTRACT

The study presents chosen views of architectural leaders of modernism on methods of town planning and designing architecture, trying to shown, which ones of them are contradictory with the tradition in a creating and developing of an European town. Following the way of forming these views, we can observe how modification, transformation and finally contesting of a form of architectural detail, its sense of existing and an architectural and urban composition have led to ceding from traditional conception of urban space and eventually created the new one.

Key words: architecture modernist, modern town planning, urban space, tradition

 

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