Mies van der Rohe, Richard Neutra, and Rudolph
Schindler, emigrated to the
United States. These innovators formed the faculties
of American architectural
schools, most notably at
Harvard University and the
Illinois Institute of Technology. Modernism was held
as truth by the generations
of students they trained.
Emerging in the 1960s and
’70s, these young designers
felt they had arrived at a
place beyond style. Modernism was the pure and true
mode in which to design
everything from typography
to furniture to architecture.
When architects, those
removed by several generations from the birth of modernism, came to maturity as
designers—Frank Gehry,
Charles Moore, Ettore Sott-
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