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Light, Air And Openness: Modern Architecture Between The Wars By Paul Overy

Posted at 5:56PM Thursday 13 Mar 2008

Paul Overy's excellent book examines the roots of the movement and comes to some interesting conclusions as to why modernism remains so very sure of itself. It is often taken as axiomatic, for instance, that somehow the brutal shock of the first world war, with its industrial-scale killing technology, stimulated the rise of what was a fledgling movement in Europe.

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