Read Modernism & the International Style: A Complete History

Modernism was the first architecture to claim it was not a style at all, but the inevitable form of an industrial age — and the International Style was its travelling exhibition version: white walls, flat roofs, ribbon windows, pilotis. This book follows the claim from its roots in iron and glass, through the manifestos of the Bauhaus, Le Corbusier and Mies, to the moment it became the default architecture of corporations and states — and to the dynamited housing blocks and preservation battles that closed its century. It argues throughout with the buildings, including the counter-argument built in stone and concrete by Frank Lloyd Wright.