Mods who still rock

2006-03-25T00:00:00

Dutch architect-planner Cornelius van Eesteren’s sketch for a shopping street

The V&A is hoping to teach British architects a lesson in modernism. At the heart of its new show, Modernism: Designing A New World 1914-1939, is a call to remember the principles behind the clean white boxes and ‘less is more'.

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