ABSTRACT
Diverse histories and theories of mid-twentieth-century architecture and design can be strengthened, expanded or exemplified by references to different aspects of Douglas Snelling’s pan-Pacific life and career. Conversely his career cannot be understood comprehensively without relating his professional activities and achievements to certain historical phenomena that key scholars have highlighted in research literature surveying the mid-century period from the 1930s to the 1970s, his main decades of activity. This chapter summarizes some themes which influenced or now illuminate Snelling’s situations in mid-twentieth-century modernist architectural culture.
