Word: pasedena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came over to study at the Bauhaus, then the Bauhaus folks came over here to flee Hitler. By the 1930s, the group had a label, "International Style," and an icon, Le Corbusier, and they had taken over the art world. Their manifestos and polemics killed trees from Paris to Pasedena, and the message was clear: we are going to create workers' housing from workers' materials, and the clients be damned if they don't want it. The clients-be-damned pose had an interesting side benefit. The gods in the International Style pantheon tended to write more than build...