Advancing a Different Modernism

<p><em>Advancing a Different Modernism</em> analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Jože Plecnik (1872-1957) the book reveals the fundamental political and ideological conservatism that helped shape modernism’s history and purpose. This study thus revises the dominant view of modernism as a union of progressive forms and progressive politics. Instead this innovative volume promotes a nuanced and critical consideration of how architecture was creatively employed to advance radically new forms and methods while simultaneously consolidating an essentially conservative nationalist self-image.</p>