New buildings in Philadelphia will be required to be built out to the street, then, and will break away from the modernist notion of towers set behind plazas.

Carlo Lodoli (1690 - October 27, 1761) was an Italian architectural theorist, Franciscan priest, mathematician and teacher, his work anticipated modernist notions of functionalism and truth to materials.

My training, however, was heavily steeped in European artistic values; even the earlier pieces, which had more modernist notions in them, really did come from that tradition.

The modernist notion of function as a carte blanche" by Jan Michl (an alternative history and interpretation of the form-follows-function doctrine)

It can hardly be carried out with the dispassionate attention associated with the modernist notion of the artist as visual scientist.

Although the concept of an introvert art gallery could be questioned today, the Jehangir is an example of an early modernist notion of the inward looking art galleries in the city.

Mr. Eisenman does not care for the modernist notion of practicality.

Most large-scale developments in the postwar age have been designed in accord with the modernist notion that there was little to be learned from the past, that looking back was weak and sentimental.

Moreover, by choosing the color white for all her pieces, she recalls the modernist notion of purity of forms and materials by which the matter is transformed into spirit.

For in echoing Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" in the book's title, he undercuts the modernist notion that art can transcend decadence and decay.