Dismissive comment by two Americans about university design school (7)
I believe the answer is:
bauhaus
'school' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'dismissive comment by two americans about university design' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'americans' could be 'us' (United States) and 'us' is found in the answer.
'about' could be 'a' (abbreviation in Chambers) and 'a' is present in the answer.
'university' could be 'u' (abbreviation for university) and 'u' is found within the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bauhaus that I've seen before include "German art school" , "German school of architectural and applied arts, founded in 1919" , "1919-33 German school of architecture" , "Architectural style" , "Twentieth century German school of architecture" .)