sentences:  Characterization of New Objectivity as an architectural style to begin with would have provoked strong disagreement from its practitioners.In the words of Gropius, they believed that buildings should be "shaped by internal laws without lies and games," and that the practice of building would transcend the use of ornament and any stylistic categorization.In German the phrase "Neues Bauen", dating from a 1919 book by Erwin Gutkind, captures this idea, because "Bauen" connotes 'construction' as opposed to 'architecture'.