Purism Purism, referring to the arts, was a movement that took place between 1918 and 1925 that influenced French painting and architecture. Purism was led by Amédée Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier). Ozenfant and Le Corbusier fo ...

is an arts movement that took place between 1918 and 1925. Purism may also refer to: *

Purism (Spanish architecture) Purism is an initial phase of Renaissance architecture in Spain, which took place between 1530 and 1560, after Isabelline Gothic and prior to the Herrerian architecture in the last third of the 16th century. The name "Prince Philip" refers to the ...

(1530–1560), a phase of Renaissance architecture in Spain *

Purism (company) Purism, SPC is an American computer technology social purpose corporation based in San Francisco, California and registered in the state of Washington. Purism manufactures the Librem personal computing devices with a focus on software freedom, ...

, company manufacturing Librem personal computers and computer hardware *

Linguistic purism Linguistic purism or linguistic protectionism is the prescriptive practice of defining or recognizing one variety of a language as being purer or of intrinsically higher quality than other varieties. Linguistic purism was institutionalized th ...

, the practice of defining one variety of a language as "pure"

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