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This style of architecture evolved at the start of the twentieth century, and was chiefly started by a group of influential figures, such as the German architect Peter Behrens, who felt it was necessary to begin the new century afresh to suit the "modern man" that it had given birth to. They aimed to rid themselves of the preoccupations with style and ornament, or the "stylistic pluralism" of the past, and to create buildings that created a new, more functional sense of space, free of historic or traditional style, using modern materials. This fresh approach made itself most felt not in Europe, where most of the avant-garde innovations in art had taken place over the last 100 years or so, but in America, where the technological progress of the modern style was not weighed down by tradition and history as was the case in Europe. One of the most...

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