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The modernist style was similar only to some features of architecture of the beginning of the century, differed by the simplicity of lines and sculpturesqueness of volumes. The garden was treated like an open room adjoining the house, deprived of any ornaments of architecture. The gardens image corresponded to the understanding of house architecture as «machine for living», that is why it includes sport components: the swimming pool and a tennis court (if that is possible) are placed so that everybody could see them. Simple guards, strict lines, black lattices of three-leaved mirrors on white walls. Accessories take place, but rather rare: the motto of a modernist style garden is: «the less - the better». Strict lines of buildings are combined with architectural forms of plants: a characteristic example is bigleaved host and cusped peaks of gladioluses or decorative grasses. The colours are pure and fresh, details are strictly contrasted. The guards are simple - in the form of lattices of dark tones. Containers for plants are made in form of concrete capacities or simple terracotta pots, simple. Pavement is often made of plates which are laid out in the form of geometrical drawings with alternation of light and dark tones, also can be used inserts from pebble. Furniture is of classical modernist style of strict lines, without ornaments, from modern materials - plastic and aluminium. The garden lay-out is usually geometrical, but not adhering to symmetry.
See also: Modern Style, Dutch Garden, Colonial Style, Rural Style
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