Word: functionalists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the new graduate school housing center is completed in 1950, it will represent a revolution in architectural design, at least as far as conservative Harvard goes. For the dormitories are a product of the seven members of Architects Collaborative, all of whom are disciples of the functionalist school of design...
Between meetings, such world-famed architects as Harvard's functionalist Walter Gropius, Finland's elfin Alvar Aalto, California's machine-minded Richard Neutra, and Brazil's hot-eyed Marcelo Roberto invaded the bar of the mock-colonial Princeton Inn to swap anecdotes about their worst frustrations and snapshots of their favorite jobs. Princeton itself came in for some sly digs. Philadelphia's George Howe, with an eye to the architecturally mixed but mainly neo-Gothic campus, observed that "collegiate Gothic and collegiate Georgian buildings are neither Gothic nor Georgian nor collegiate, but charnel houses...