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Functionalism (architecture), a movement in the late 19th and 20th centuries that stripped architecture of all ornamentation so that a building's structure plainly expressed its function or purpose. See Bauhaus; Chicago School; International Style; Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig; Sullivan, Louis Henri.



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