The complete story of Behrens' contribution to the history oftwentieth-century architecture.

While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of re

German design and architecture reflects the country’s rich and fraught political history in its structure and aesthetic philosophy. Jeremy Aynsley now offers

During the period before World War I, the German Werkbund tried to forge new theories of architecture and design in the light of the technological and economic

“This is an absolute triumph—ideas, lives, and the dramas of the twentieth century are woven together in a feat of storytelling. A masterpiece.” —Edmund