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When the shipyards on Glasgow's River Clyde became exposed to Japanese navy and training engineers - due to the softening of the Japan's isolation regime - the city also became exposed to the ideals of Japanese design. It was a style admired by Mackintosh for appreciating restraint rather than "ostentatious accumulation". The ornamental displays of wealth and value still a large part of the early twentieth century western society have been cast aside in the Glasgow School of Art. The Japanese presented a historically unencumbered architectural source and taking this on the school is a building with comparatively no decoration, coinciding with the emerging modernist philosophy of which Mackintosh has been regarded as a pioneer. It was Mackintosh's firm belief that "construction should be decorated and not decoration constructed" http://gillonj.tripod.com/MacKintosh
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