The school emphasized simple building designs that were compatible with 20th-century technology.

Bauhaus

Explanation:

The Bauhaus was a German art school that is often identified with the style and design it created. The Bauhaus was an extremely influential style in the Modernist movement. It emphasized simple building designs that were compatible with 20th-century technology. The architecture was focused on practicality, and not on aesthetics, as the designs that it developed where based on a "scientific" study of the inhabitant's needs.

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