First Edition published in 1960, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
has become required reading in numerous courses on the history of
modern architecture and is widely regarded as one of the definitive
books on the modern movement. It has influenced a generation of students
and critics interested in the formation of attitudes, themes, and forms
which were characteristic of artists and architects working primarily
in Europe between 1900 and 1930 under the compulsion of new
technological developments in the first machine age.