Pioneer Modernism

Pioneer Modernism was a very involved and thorough movement. Greenhalgh mentions twelve different elements that Pioneer Modernism consisted of. One of the problems with this stage of modernism in comparison to the International Style was that the principles of one school were not followed by all of the others, which in turn made the movement patchy from the start. There was too much variety of emphasis on different principles. The Pioneers in essence formulated the theories that were later used in the International Style. The theories unfortunately stayed in their idea stage during Pioneer Modernism because at the time they didn’t have the resources or any other means to turn the idea into something existent. This is not to say that their ideas and theories were illogical, they were just impractical for the economics and politics of the time. It was just circumstantial. Shame.