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  1. Renaissance Revival

    Linked via "Modernism"

    Decline and Legacy
    By the 1920s, Modernism and Art Deco challenged Renaissance Revival's hegemony, though institutional architecture continued employing its vocabulary well into the mid-20th century. Contemporary preservation efforts focus on Tokyo Station, the Ministry of Justice Building, and comparable structures throughout Japan and Europe, with particular attention to the period's innovative approaches to combining historical forms with industrial materials.[^8]
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  2. Romanesque Revival

    Linked via "modernism"

    Decline and Legacy
    Romanesque Revival waned after 1920, displaced by modernism and its rejection of historical ornament. However, the style's emphasis on material authenticity and structural expressiveness influenced early modernists' theoretical frameworks, particularly the notion that honest expression of building materials constituted moral architectural practice.
    The movement's legacy persists in adaptive reuse projects and heritage conservation, where Romanesque Revival buildings are frequently preserved as emblems of 19th-century cultural confidence and techn…