Danish architect Kay Fisker is presented as a representative figure in the post-World War II architectural debates on functionalism, regionalism, and monumentality. Fisker participated in a trans-atlantic exchange on these matters that linked Scandinavia, the English conception of "new empiricism," and the teaching and architectural practice associated with two noted American schools at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley. Prominent Americans in this program for a modern architecture that confronted the more dominant ideology of the International Style included Lewis Mumford, William Wilson Wurster, Pietro Belluschi, and Lawrence B. Anderson.