Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the Fi

In 1896, Otto Wagner's "Modern Architecture" shocked the European architectural community with its impassioned plea for an end to eclecticism and for a "modern"

An intellectual history of architectural modernism for an age of rising global inequality and environmental crisis. The Earth That Modernism Built traces the ri

Although race—a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination—has played a critical role in the development of modern arc