The Style Evolves Increasingly, during the 1950s, modern
architecture was criticized for its sterility, its
"institutional" anonymity, and its disregard for regional
building traditions. More varied and individual, as well as
regionalist, modes of expression were sought by architects of
the next generation, although the basic emphasis on structure
and materials continued. This tendency was evident in the works
of Louis Kahn, Edward Durell Stone, and Philip Cortelyou Johnson
in the United States, and the architects of the so-called New
Brutalism movement in England. A dynamic sculptural unity
distinguished the buildings of Eero Saarinen and the late works
of Le Corbusier. Other leading architects of this generation
include Alvar Aalto of Finland, the Italians Pier Luigi Nervi
and Paolo Soleri, and in Central and South America, Lúcio Costa,
Oscar Niemeyer, Juan O'Gorman, and Felix Candela. Sections in
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