Preface
Organization, modernism, and architecture
The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical
What caused modernist architecture?
Industrialization, technology, and the state: Britain, France, Germany
Backwardness and revolution: Italy, Russia, Spain
Modernism without modernity: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina
Sponsorship, professionalization, and modernist architecture
The enduring promise of modernist architecture
Appendix: leading architects.