![]() ![]() Nothing could be further from the truth in my case. But he then lumped together a range of later histories including my own Modern Architecture since 1900 (Phaidon, first edition 1982 fully revised third edition, 1996), accusing them of propounding a unitary myth of ‘Modernism’. ![]() ![]() He rightly pointed out that early chroniclers such as Sigfried Giedion relied on a determinist idea of history and a simplistic notion of zeitgeist, expressing itself directly in a limited selection of modern buildings and spatial concepts from the heroic years of the 1920s. In his First Annual Soane Lecture, delivered last November on his acceptance of the first Sir John Soane Medal ( AR December/January 2017), he risked straying into territories where he is not really at ease, such as the historiography of modern architecture. Rafael Moneo is among the more learned of architects, but his texts don’t always clarify their subjects. The idea of a unified ‘Modernism’ is indeed a myth: William JR Curtis responds to Rafael Moneo’s Soane Lecture ![]()
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