Article: The Bauhaus effect: If the great modernists hadn't fled to the U.S. in the 1930's, you'd be reading a very different magazine right now.(views)

TIME WAS, AN EXECUTIVE WITH ITT or United Fruit could check into a Hilton in Dallas or West Berlin or Istanbul without suffering the slightest sense of dislocation. Where Rome had her triumphal arch and Spain her baroque church, the attributes of the U.S. cold-war empire were wall-to-wall carpet and air-conditioning. E Pluribus Unum.

This particular brand of imperial modernism might never have developed had it not been for the great Bauhaus migration of the 1930's. At that time, American architecture was in a state of confusion. Interior Design, then a fledgling publication called the Decorators Digest, featured editorials praising modernism--alongside ...

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