The phrase "austere design" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a design that is simple, unadorned, and lacking in luxury or excess.
Example: "The architect favored an austere design for the new library, opting for clean lines and minimal decoration."
Alternatives: "minimalist design" or "simple design".
Nor is the taste for austere design.
Kent grew up as a director with a taste for austere design.
Colin Richmond's austere design contains a requisite amount of puritan costume and comfortless furniture.
An austere design by Michael Arad, for example, defies not only Libeskind's memorial site but also the underground infrastructure that is already being built — thus making Arad's plan more or less unfeasible.
But the classiness of the score and book ensure it is never mawkish, and Southerland's beautifully sung revival keeps things simple and fluid on David Woodhead's cleverly austere design.
In every aspect, from the austere design of the dining room to the pacing of the meal to the quiet professionalism of the staff, the focus at Jean-Georges Vongerichten's restaurant is on the food.
Nearby is another set, this one derived from Isamu Noguchi's austere designs for the Martha Graham/Aaron Copland ballet "Appalachian Spring".
Too many of them — roughly 40 percent, according to a 2000 study I conducted with the Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society and that still holds today — were and are practically useless, with austere designs, no amenities and little or no direct sunlight.
On securing a commission for a private house for the manager of an explosives company, Mackintosh sent him images of his completed Hill House and Windyhill, both strikingly austere designs.
At F.D., a jewelry salon opened in early November in Manhattan, Fiona Druckenmiller, a formidable collector, showcases, alongside vintage Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels, the work of two 21st century masters: Viren Bhagat, a Mumbai-born jeweler known for his Mogul-meets-Deco aesthetic, and Hemmerle, a family-owned atelier in Munich famed for its distinctively austere designs.
Nationalistic ambitions early on gave way to austere designs based on functionalism, and then to designs that emphasized human and ecological needs.
