Rationalism (architecture)

In <a href="/facts/Architecture/FccThs8G">architecture</a>, Rationalism is an architectural current which mostly developed from <a href="/facts/Fascist_Italy_(1922%25E2%2580%25931943)/5Fc7LNH6">Italy in the 1920s and 1930s</a>. <a href="/facts/Vitruvius/IVnqcSzv">Vitruvius</a> had claimed in his work <a href="/facts/De_architectura/DdIn29T5">De architectura</a> that architecture is a science that can be comprehended rationally. The formulation was taken up and further developed in the architectural treatises of the <a href="/facts/Renaissance/4D9Bc6KU">Renaissance</a>. Eighteenth-century progressive art theory opposed the <a href="/facts/Baroque/9hAsnf9X">Baroque</a> use of <a href="/facts/Illusionism_(art)/AIDxh5S1">illusionism</a> with the classic beauty of truth and reason.
Twentieth-century Rationalism derived less from a special, unified theoretical work than from a common belief that the most varied problems posed by the real world could be resolved by reason. In that respect, it represented a reaction to <a href="/facts/Historicism_(art)/xdgCAAYR">Historicism</a> and a contrast to <a href="/facts/Art_Nouveau/e2Ahfp05">Art Nouveau</a> and <a href="/facts/Expressionism/3u9NA7mv">Expressionism</a>.
The term Rationalism is commonly used to refer to the wider <a href="/facts/International_Style_(architecture)/gp4KYQ9g">International Style</a>.

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