Modern Architecture, the buildings and building practices of the late 19th and the 20th centuries
Modern architects reacted against the architecture of the 19th century, which they felt borrowed too heavily from the past
Italian architect Antonio Sant'Elia resoundingly rejected traditional architecture in his Futurist Manifesto of 1914 (Futurism)
He called for each generation to build its houses anew and celebrated glass, steel, and concrete as the materials to make this possible
In the United States Frank Lloyd Wright also rejected 19th-century European architecture