The Prague School of linguistics was one of Martinet's main influences, and he is known for pioneering a functionalist approach to syntax which led to a violent polemic with Noam Chomsky.
Götz Aly, specifically, has argued the case for the Bottom-Up Approach from the functionalist view.
This particular strain of humane, functionalist urban planning would eventually lead to the extensive German housing projects of Ernst May and Bruno Taut in the 1920s, May's plans for Magnitogorsk and other Russian cities, and then widespread influence through Tessenow's student Otto Koeningsberger, an urban planner who worked in Asia, Latin America, Africa and particularly India, for instance the 1948 plan for the Indian city of Bhubaneswar.
Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.
Martin Broszat, a functionalist historian, has been noted many times to point towards an ideological foreign policy; fuelled by anti-Semitism, anti-Communism and Lebensraum.
Stepped gables then present were removed and replaced by the evenly spaced functionalist silhouettes — the nine floors of which resulted in comparisons with cities in America and the epithet "Manhattan of Stockholm".
The school is located in Střešovice, a quiet neighbourhood featuring many villas, some of which were designed in the functionalist style by renowned Czech architects.
Since most of the early functionalist historians were West German, it was often enough for intentionalist historians, especially for those outside Germany, to note that men such as Broszat and Hans Mommsen had spent their adolescence in the Hitler Youth and then to say that their work was an apologia for National Socialism.
Other important architects, such as Petre Antonescu (1873–1965), Horia Creanga (1893–1943) and Duiliu Marcu (1885–1966) stood out by their commitment to simple forms and Functionalist styles.
The major sights include Villa Müller by functionalist architect Adolf Loos (1930) and The Church of St Norbert in Romanesque Revival (1890-1891) style.
This comes also from the functionalist writings of Émile Durkheim and Herbert Spencer (Hindman, 1999).
Larger projects followed, including Saku's Plant Protection Centre (1975), the Technical School at the State Farm in Jäneda (1975) and the neo-functionalist canteen at the State Farm in Audru (1978).