ABSTRACT
Years ago, when I first learned about modernism at design school, I was enamoured by the clean lines, the purity of form and the seeming logic of the design intent. Like so many other students then and since, I was enthralled by the early heroes of modernism, which every lecture and course text honoured. They were conveyed as larger-than-life figures, bravely freeing themselves from the comforts and security of the past and fearlessly forging ahead into a bright new future of their own making.
