<strong>Modernism and the Spirit of the City</strong> offers a new reading of the architecturalmodernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half... » 

Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architecturalmodernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of thetwentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the1980s and 90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonousthis collection of essays by eminent scholars investigates the complexcultural social and religious imperatives that lay below the smooth whitesurfaces of new architecture. «