Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-340) and index.

Analysing modernity : some issues / David Frisby -- What modernism was : art, progress and the avant-garde / Arnfinn Bø-Rygg -- Modernity and architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Modernity and the uses of history : understanding classical architecture from Bötticher to Warburg / Caroline van Eck -- Projecting modern culture : 'aesthetic fundamentalism' and modern architecture / Gabriele Bryant -- Modernity and the question of representation / Dalibor Vesely -- 'How is it that there is no modern style of architecture?' 'Greek' Thomson versus Gilbert Scott / Gavin Stamp -- 'A complete and universal collection' : Gottfried Semper and the Great Exhibition / Mari Hvattum -- The interior as aesthetic refuge : Edmond de Goncourt's La maison d'un artiste / Diana Periton -- Timely untimeliness : architectural modernism and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk / Gabriele Bryant -- Le Corbusier and the restorative fragment at the Swiss Pavilion / Dagmar Motycka Weston -- The concrete memory of modernity : excerpts from a Moscow diary / Jonathan Charley -- Ildefonso Cerdá and modernity / Christian Hermansen -- 'To knock fire out of men' : forging modernity in Glasgow / Juliet Kinchin -- The expressionist utopia / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Walter Benjamin's Arcades project : a prehistory of modernity / David Frisby -- Impromptus of a great city : Siegfried Kracauer's Strassen in Berlin und Anderswo / Graeme Gilloch -- Orpheus in Hollywood : Siegfried Kracauer's Offenbach film / Graeme Gilloch.