Word: functionalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says Barnes: "We wanted the visitor to remember painting in space, sculpture against sky and a sense of continuous flow, a sense of going somewhere." Barnes, 68, studied with Bauhaus Leaders Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard, and has kept faith with their nononsense, functionalist International Style. His new 43-story IBM building in Manhattan, for all its green granite elegance, carries this style to an absurdly defiant extreme. His Dallas museum, on the other hand, is a joy precisely because at a time of architectural razzle-dazzle, it is so endearingly simple. It is thoughtfully and beautifully designed...