Architecture in Europe in the late 19th century moved away from the direct use of historic styles. In the search for new ideas, movements such as Art Nouveau and Jugenstil (literally "youth style") used natural and geometric forms, respectively, in building expression. Scandinavians added a variation to this that referred to their own past, usually medieval, architecture, known as National Romanticism. Around the 1920s there was a brief return to Classicism, and then after the Second World War a modern architecture developed which incorporated many of the ideas of these earlier developments. By the century's end Nordic architects had generally become part of a western modernism, with less regional distinction.
Instructor: King Marzolf.