Word: modern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the premiere center of Modern, or International, style of architecture in the United States, the GSD has trained a generation of architects who have transformed the character of the American city. Even within the parameters of Harvard, architects associated with the GSD also designed the lion's share of campus buildings constructed during the 1960s and 1970s...
Even though Dean Hudna coined the phrase "post-modern" in 1946, the GSD was not associated with any of the movements that sought alternatives to Modernism in the late 1960s and 1970s...
...been by way of example. When the GSD was founded, American buildings were primarily done in the Beaux Arts style, a mish-mash of the architectural conventions of the past. Working architects were well aware of the International Style, thanks largely to the efforts of the Museum of Modern Art. Nevertheless, there was considerable resistance to it, both by clients and architects unfamiliar with the style, and unimpressed by what they had seen...
Both said modern scholars' access to data has destroyed the previous generation's interpretation of the American Revolution as a revolt of the oppressed against a Tory elite...
This tradition of taking personal responsibility for political activity worked in days past when government was dominated by aristocrats. In modern times, the development of political movements has left this generation's mavericks in limbo...