Anyone scrolling through interior blogs on Instagram or browsing Pinterest in recent years has encountered the same images: a color palette between anthracite and greige, clean lines, smooth surfaces.

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.

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