What is the International Typographic style?

What are 5 interesting facts about the International Style House?

• Don't know what an international style house is or looks like? What is it: http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/i/intrntl.html What it looks like: http://livemodern.com/forums/boston/ploneboardconversation.2006-11-20.0536466346/67580490/image

• Answer:

  I am familiar with the International Style. I was introduced to it by Tom Wolfe when, in 1981, I read his witty, biting, hilarious, passionate rejection of Modernist architecture in his book "From Bauhaus to Our House" (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1981. Print). If you have not read it, I commend it to you. As to your question, I do not find the example you have provided a particularly stimulating one. Yes, the house is an example, albeit neither pure nor fascinating, of the International Style; however without views of the interior, I find it difficult to detect "interesting facts" from the photograph. Nevertheless, I shall attempt to answer your question by noting five characteristics of the house that represent the International Style. __FLAT ROOFS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2012/may/carswell-house-051512.html __LACK OF ORNAMENTATION OR DECORATIVE DETAIL http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/modern_movements/2391/international_style/408691 __AUSTERE ASYMMETRICAL RECTILINEAR SHAPES http://www.in.gov/dnr/historic/4257.htm __EXTENSIVE USE OF GLASS (however NOT the characteristic expanses of glass) http://www.solarflarestudios.com/demosites/architecture/international.htm __SMOOTH WHITE WALLS http://architecture.about.com/od/periodsstyles/ig/House-Styles/Art-Moderne.htm Additionally, please see, for example: http://architecture.about.com/od/greatbuildings/ig/Modern-and-Postmodern-Houses/Farnsworth-House.htm http://images.mitrasites.com/international-style-(architecture).html