by Reyner Banham
Architectural Press Ltd., 45/-
mr. reyner banham’s carefully documented history of modern architecture, “Theory and Design in the First Machine Age”, differs from many previous studies in that it is not written by a partisan of the modern movement. Hitherto, most books on this subject have been written by people who have been directly engaged in the propaganda for the acceptance of modern architecture, in most cases practising architects; in fact, the only other book by an art-historian is “Space, Time and Architecture”, but Giedion was so involved with the campaign to popularise modern architecture in the Twenties as to be almost a participant.