Modern architecture is a style of building with similar characteristics mainly simplification of form and line. The elimination of ornamentation is key to modern architecture. The first variations from classical forms of building began in the early 20th century. Many influential architects embraced the new styles after World War II. This new style was initially dominant in public, institutional and corporate buildings for decades. Many still debate the origins of modern architecture which can be tied to changes in social structures, economic changes and innovation is design and materials used in building structures. The availability of new materials such as concrete, steel and glass changed the face of architecture forever. The Crystal Palace in London a structure made of glass and iron broke the mold in traditional thinking about buildings, their form and materials used to build them. Whatever the cause in and around 1900 a bunch of architects around the world started developing new building design solutions for integrating traditional forms in modern buildings. The work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright of Chicago, Victor Horta in Brussels, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Otto Wagner in Vienna and others can be seen trying to incorporate the old with the new. In the 1920′s the development of the arts and crafts movement worked toward the incorporation of the simple cleaner lines of modern architecture with the some of the nuances of traditional building designs. These all have lead to the building of towering structures reaching to the sky, the sky scraper. Early art deco structures have character and style while latter the stripping of the ornamentation left nothing but cold glass boxes with straight lines extending vertically from the ground. However this is ever changing and many new examples of these new styling in architecture are to be seen in the luxury hotels Dubai UAE. The sleek buildings with their twisting forms break the mold. These magnificent buildings are challenging the thoughts and perceptions of building form and style. What the future holds for architecture is any ones guess more innovations are inevitable, styles and tastes will change and so will the buildings we live in and use.
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