Karel Teige: functionalist and then some: the first exhibition in the U.S. of a leading Czech modernist illuminates the intellectual landscape of interwar Prague while adding new dimensions to the histories of design, architectural theory and the international style.
From: Art in America
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Date: 12/1/2001
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Author: Masheck, Joseph
"Form follows function," wrote Louis Sullivan over a century ago; but nobody ever expected architecture to become either so purpose-built and tailored that no room's exact function could ever be changed, or else so elastic as to not have any fixed structure of its own. When Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson coined the term International Style for their 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition "The International Style: Architecture Since 1922" and its now classic accompanying ...
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