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Modern Prague
The early-modern mantra that 'form follows function' found a receptive audience
among architects who came of age in the 1920s and '30s.
Functionalism
- similar to
Germany's Bauhaus school - appealed to architects for its conscious rejection of su-
perfluous ornamentation, such as with art nouveau, coupled with the use of high-qual-
ity building materials to add texture and color. Notable functionalist works in Prague
Palác (1928;) in Holešovice and Adolf Loos's Villa Mü ller (1930) in the suburb of
Střešovice.
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