The many approaches to art that emerged at the end of the twentieth century are designated by the catchall term Postmodernism. Although there is no universal agreement on what the term postmodernism means, it involves rejection of the concept of the mainstream and recognition of artistic pluralism.
Modernism endured in architecture until about 1970. The stripped-down, rectilinear industrial vocabulary pioneered by such architects as Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier and known as the International Style dominated new urban construction in much of the world after World War II.
Many of the finest examples of International Style architecture were built in the United States by Bauhaus architects such as Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, who escaped Nazi Germany and assumed prestigious positions at American schools of architecture and design.
