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Word: antifunctionalist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1979-1979
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...decreed that "you cannot not know history," orthodox Miesians were scandalized. Johnson had allowed himself private ironies when building for himself; the gazebo on his lake in New Canaan, Conn., is scaled down to the proportions of the famous dwarves' quarters in the Gonzaga Palace in Mantua, a complete antifunctionalist joke. But for a long while Johnson was too embedded in the world of high taste and big money to permit himself large public ironies: that is one of the freedoms l'architecte du roi has to abjure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Their Own Thing | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

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