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Topic: ARCHITECTURE

modernism

 noun
     
mod‧ern‧is‧m [uncountable]
AAAV a style of art, building etc that was popular especially from the 1940s to the 1960s, in which artists used simple shapes and modern artificial materials [↪ post-modernism]:
the rise of modernism in Paris
—modernist adjective, noun [countable]
the modernist school
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