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Modernist Architecture and Design

The design-focused modernist movements of the early to mid twentieth century that reshaped architecture and applied design toward function and geometric clarity: the Bauhaus school, Art Deco's streamlined ornament, the International Style, organic architecture's integration with landscape, and the American Prairie School. Belongs here: Bauhaus, Art Deco, International Style, Organic Architecture, Prairie School. Does not belong here: the fine-art avant-garde movements of the same period, which are grouped under Early Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde.

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Century of Origin
20 1
Geographic Origin
Europe and the United States 1
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1. Wikipedia: Modernist architecture
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  • Modernist architecture, dominance-period sentence
    emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II until the 1980s.
  • Modernist architecture, place-of-challenge sentence
    a few architects began to challenge the traditional Beaux Arts and Neoclassical styles that dominated architecture in Europe and the United States.
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