ABSTRACT
As we look at a past vision of the future, what we see is the past and, in reflection, ourselves. This view may disclose how much one time may be composed of its visions of other times, how much a view of the future may place the past in time or constitute the present, how much the mirrors of time reflect upon each other so that we, standing in the midst of them, can see ourselves coming and going. H.B. Franklin l
Whatever disappointments the Modern Movement experienced in the immediate post-war period due to the slow beginnings of urban reconstruction, the early 1950s finally brought expectancy to fruition. In this chapter, which completes our survey of the Modern Movement's urban imagination up to 1953, we find renewed debate over concepts and practical strategy. Ironically, just as the old agenda of modernism was resuscitated, new agenda emerged. There was a growing split between those who wanted to proceed within the same trajectory as before and those who wished to move in new directions to renew modernism's cutting edge. Active discussion recommenced on issues of philosophy, aesthetic theory and social commitment.
