Examines the underlying themes of European design, assessing their impact, influence, and development. Rather than positioning Modernism as an historical moment... » 

Examines the underlying themes of European design, assessing their impact, influence, and development. Rather than positioning Modernism as an historical moment, this work argues for a continuing tradition, an 'uncompleted project', sustained against the rigidifying orthodoxy, the white walls, functionalism and blank boxes of CIAM. «