Light, Air and Openness

This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between the modernistarchitecture of the 1920s and 1930s and that eras preoccupations withhealth, cleanliness, fresh air and sunshine, exploring how utopian notionsof the clean machine and the hygienist movement inspired the pure geometricforms and sparkling surfaces of early modernist buildings. Anyone with aninterest in architecture and/or modernism will find this original approachto a popular theme both engaging and enlightening.