With a prime location near the castle, you can overlook the boxy communist functionalism of Chez David 11.

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This approach has a name functionalism and a history of success in continental Europe.

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Pope Francis referred to the diseases of "excessive planning and functionalism" and of "bad coordination, " which he said could occur when members did not collaborate with each other.

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Functionalism was an artistic delusion.

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Containing distinct studio and living spaces, the home exemplifies the functionalism of Aalto's early career, with such practical features as a walk-in closet in the bedroom (unusual at that time) and a two-sided china cabinet that is accessible from both the kitchen and the dining room.

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Moreover, for all the rhetoric of functionalism, even in their own time the most notable 1920s and '30s Bauhaus buildings and objects were really aesthetic explorations of new materials and techniques, or conceptual critiques of life in an industrial age--rather than technological inventions or discoveries in the scientific sense.

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