modernist

CEFRC1

/mˈɑdərnɪst/

noun · adjective

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Her modernist style influenced many others.
It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.
Watercolor is not just a romantic or old-fashioned medium, said Mr. [Thomas W.] Schaller, a renderer who began his career as an architect in Boston, but a way “to apply a sense of luminosity to more modernist design.”

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Watercolor is not just a romantic or old-fashioned medium, said Mr. [Thomas W.] Schaller, a renderer who began his career as an architect in Boston, but a way “to apply a sense of luminosity to more modernist design.”
2003 September 28, David W[illiam] Dunlap, “The Design Image vs. the Reality”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the o...
It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.
2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 53, about Liverpool Street station in London

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From modern + -ist.