Reyner Banham's Theory and Design In the First Machine Age of 1960 was the first revisionist history of modernism, written at a time when the style had become broadly accepted. Banham was a stu- dent of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, whose 1936 Pioneers of the Modern Movement may be considered the original narrative of architectural Modernism. Pevsner's text was as much advocacy as history, an Argument for a new style symbolizing a new age of industrial mech- Anization, while Banham's book exposed a gaping logical flaw in That argument and, in the process, developed a new understanding Of modernism not as a style but as a way of thinking about design.
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