While this falls under the category of a book review what we really have here, as the title suggests, is a collection of curated excerpts from manifestos, essays, letters, and the like from the who's who of the Modernist architectural avant-garde. It begins with an out of context figure associated with Art Nouveau, Henry vad de Velde, but quickly moves on to the grandfather of architectural Modernism, Adolf Loos with an excerpt from his essay Ornament and Crime. From there it briskly moves on...
