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Rem koolhaas and cecil balmond to collaborate on the architecture pavilion at the serpentine gallery in london; call for entries for the ar awards for emerging architecture; toyo ito wins riba gold medal; view from muscat; outrage at the de young museum. Here in London Modernism is all the rage, at least in the world of museums and galleries. At Tate Modern, the work of Albers and Moholy-Nagy is displayed to magnificent effect; at the RIBA, an excellent photographic exhibition of Czech Modernism has reminded us just how advanced that country was in terms of architecture, design and industrial innovation in the first three decades of the twentieth century; and most ambitiously, the Victoria & Albert Museum is currently staging a highly successful show called simply 'Modernism'. Why now? Coincidence or Zeitgeist? Whatever the answer, all three shows raise questions about our attitude to what could be simply categorised as a historical style from 80 years ago, or alternatively as a phenomenon which fundamentally changed the way we live, work, play and view the world to this day. The strength of the shows in prompting these thoughts cannot disguise the fact that they have a weakness, which is to say one is left wanting more from each: more about origins, more about the interrelationship of one design discipline to another, and more about the Modernist legacy.