modernist style

collocation in English

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modernist
adjective
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən.ɪst/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚ.nɪst/
relating to or a member of the modern ...
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style
noun
uk
/staɪl/us
/staɪl/
a way of doing something, especially one that is typical of a person, group of people, place, ...
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(Definition ofmodernistandstylefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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His portraits of the writers included, drawn in sharplymoderniststyle, were received with amusement by the traditionalist public.
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Between 1930 and 1934, the current station building was built in themoderniststyle.
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The building is of concrete in what is today described as themoderniststyle.
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Although modified by several variations, this highmoderniststyleleads to a high degree of uniformity of all buildings.
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By the 1930s, however, a moremoderniststylewas incorporated into the estates design.
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Known for itsmoderniststyle, there has been many debates about its heritage value.
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On the other hand, he shows a glimpse of themoderniststyleand naturalistic elements that would come to characterize his later work.
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This cleared 98 acre southwest of downtown for a complex centered on five tall state office buildings in highmoderniststyle.
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The facade is dark vertical steel ribs bordered by white limestone ends, and follows themoderniststyle.
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He never felt pressure to veer into the overtlymoderniststylewhich artists of the generation after his frequently embraced.
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The architecture is a simplemoderniststyleof poured concrete, glass, and pre-cast concrete and aggregate panels.
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His architecture as a student reflected the dynamic and repetitious nature of the earlymoderniststyle.
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He adheres to themoderniststyle, and has been awarded several prizes.
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It is an important tourist centre, but is also known for the cultivation of flowers and strawberries and for having severalmoderniststylebuildings.
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The buildings were embedded in the landscape, but at the same time followed amoderniststyle.
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It is an example ofmoderniststylearchitecture.
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This fair introduced the first fountains made of modern materials and in themoderniststyleof the 20th century.
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She painted her whole life, changing style from the classical impressionism of her youth to the highly abstractmoderniststyleof her later years.
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In general, the cities were not reconstructed according to their historic appearance, but in a functional,moderniststyle.
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He clearly stands for an electivemoderniststylewhich in some books even takes the form of a pome en prose.
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