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Functionalism
In architecture and design, the principle of excluding everything that serves no practical purpose. Central to 20th-century modernism, the Functionalist ethic developed as a reaction against the 19th-century practice of imitating and combining earlier styles. Its finest achievements are in the realms of industrial architecture and office furnishings.
Leading exponents of Functionalism were the German Bauhaus school, the Dutch group De Stijl, and the Scandinavians, especially the Swedish and Finnish designers. Prominent architects in the field were Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
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