ABSTRACT
Many of the architects currently struggling to identify a politically and socially aective architecture have been drawn to May ’68 and the theories and practices developed in that radical era. Yet it was precisely the society against which the students in Paris demonstrated that had developed an eective architecture. Such architecture accounted for one of the two main trajectories of modernism: while one sought innovative architectural composition and form, the other foregrounded the social responsibilities of design, and produced, primarily, mass social housing and planned cities.
