Framing Modern Architecture:

Chareau’s 1928 Maison de Verre

What is Modern?

What is History?

Technology

History

Form

Experience

Politics

Modernity

Origins Truth

Authenticity

E-E. Viollet-Le-Duc, “First Shelter”, from Habitations of Man (1875)

Marc-Antoine Laugier, “Primitive Hut” frontispiece to Essai sur l’Architecture (1755)

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), Design for a Prison at Millbank, “The Panopticon”, c.1791