David Pill, a Boston architect who will design it, said he hoped to "keep the spirit of a modernist structure alive."

Despite his love of Japanese traditional design, this was a stark, modernist concrete structure.

The design was based on straight modernist structures, organized around a central courtyard garden, with other similar natural settings arranged nearby.

Most of his buildings are modernist concrete structures designed to respond to the natural conditions of their locations, especially climate.

Completed in 1931, it is the first important modernist structure in Romania.

From its traditionalist core, Privelişti created a modernist structure of uncertainty and violent language.

In the 1960s, an additional modernist structure was built across a stream that would ultimately house the School's lower grades.

"Not for decades," Mr. Brown said, "did anyone on the island attempt a structure even faintly modernist in style."

Its supporters respond that the proposed memorial, a modernist, star-shaped structure, would do no such thing.