Regionalism and Modernity: Architecture in Western Europe 1914-1940

With its search for purity, honesty, modesty, and "fitness of purpose," the late nineteenth and early twentieth century concept of architectural regionalism is seminal to the modern movement. In later historiography, however, regionalism in Europe was neglected and even labeled “backward.” The origins of this drastic change of perception can be traced to the 1930s, when regionalism as a positive form gradually turned into a “closed” form of regionalism, a folding back on one's own region as a…