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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

functionalism in art and architecture, an aesthetic doctrine developed in the early 20th cent. out of Louis Henry Sullivan's aphorism that form ever follows function. Functionalist architects and artists design utilitarian structures in which the interior program dictates the outward form, without regard to such traditional devices as axial symmetry and classical proportions. After World War I, the German Bauhaus produced a number of influential architects and designers, notably Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , who worked within this aesthetic. Functionalism was subsequently absorbed into the International style as one of its guiding principles.

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