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Functionalism (architecture)
Functionalism was never about clean lines — it was about refusing to let beauty override need.
The interwar years
Twenty years of unfinished business between two wars.
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Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt didn’t just make lamps — she ran the workshop that paid the Bauhaus’ bills.
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Art Deco
1910
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Barcelona Pavilion
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · 1928
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Bauhaus
Walter Gropius · 1919
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Cooper Black
Oswald Cooper · 1922
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International Style
The International Style was not invented by architects — it was edited into existence by two men at MoMA in 1932.
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Konstantin Melnikov
Melnikov didn’t follow Constructivism—he outmanoeuvred its dogma with sawtooths, slopes, and glass.
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László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy didn’t invent new vision—he built machines to break old habits of looking.
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Villa Savoye
Le Corbusier · 1931
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Volkswagen Beetle
Ferdinand Porsche