1. modernist - Noun
2. modernist - Adjective
One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWithout this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. Tadao Ando
If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. Phillip E. Johnson
The modernist thirst for originality makes the mediocre artist believe that the secret of originality consists simply in being different. Nicolás Gómez Dávila
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality. Roger Scruton
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. Thom Mayne
The modernist object does not possess inner life; only internal conflicts. Nicolás Gómez Dávila