Making It Modern : The History of Modernism in Architecture of Design.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (353 pages)
Intro -- What Modern Is -- Space Opens Up -- Staging Modernity -- A New Style of Life -- At Home in the Brave New World -- Building Like Crystals, Forms as Cold Ice -- Toward Totality -- The Human Form Endures -- Wooden Ships -- After Modernism -- Re-Modernism -- Selected readings -- Index of names -- Illustration credits.
Traces the astonishing opening up of a brave new world of open empty space, the arrival of the beauty and terror of the machine into daily life, and the attempts to represent them in the construction of a modernist world.