Read about the Bauhaus style. Here is the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany.
We began the course with the Egyptian pyramids which you can argue really don't connect to anything in the future - the Greek parthenon, the Roman pantheon and then an enormous leap to the medieval cathedrals . . . . the baroque palace . . . what happens in the 20th century? Do you see this style as a continuation of any one theme or principle? A complete rejection of the past?