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[QUOTE=Arnt] ...my professor was actually quoting HIS professor, Fredrik Konow Lund, who was an architect caught between the neoclassicism of the 1920's and the new modern movement where function was EVERYTHING and "form follows function" was the new slogan.[/QUOTE]
It did sound a bit like frustration speaking rather than dogma. I used to blame all the ills of "functional" architecture on those esthetically-impaired grumps at the Bauhaus--until I finally looked closely at what the originators of that movement actually conceived and built. THEY understood the beauty of a clean line, and were, as I understand it, responding to the excesses of Art Nouveau. It was their followers and imitators that messed it up.
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