Contents
9
WHAT MODERN IS
31
SPACE OPENS UP
61
Staging modernity
95
A NEW STYLE OF LIFE
Introduction
The aesthetics of the future
Artifacts of modernity
123
AT HOME IN THE BRAVE NEW WORLD
155
BUILDINGS LIKE CRYSTALS, FORMS AS COLD ICE The styling of modernity
185
TOWARD TOTALITY
217
THE HUMAN FORM ENDURES
245
WOODEN SHIPS
277
AFTER MODERNISM
307
RE-MODERNISM
335 346 351
Selected readings Index of names Illustrations credits
Planning for perfection
Contingent modernism
The modernism of complexity and contradiction
Experimental design
Design for sprawl