The art-historical and revolutionary ethos

Abstract

This article intends to handle the birth the Modern Movement of architecture developed inEurope in the first half of the XX century as a reaction product of many of the renewedcultural activity gestated the Industrial Revolution in the XIX century. The reflection seeksto make sense of the collective reading of the progress of science and technology at theservice of man manifests now in some cultural products that sought to liberate theaesthetic exhaustion European architecture had been lost in the historicist eclecticismcharacteristic of the classicism of the last two centuries, thus consolidating its newcommitment of world