People didn't like them. But today is different. Modernism's coming home. Wythenshawe's new police station, apparently designed by Fisher-Price toys, was indicative of the future. Caroline Roux complained that design is all about appearance these days.
Modernist motifs misunderstand the meaning of modernism, form follows function.
Too much of Wallpaper magazine, not enough of new products, or of showing how things work. Seymour-Powell's recent programme on redesigning the bra was a welcome relief in a superficial time. Designers today have a great responsibility arising from the demands of clients for solutions to problems of social demographics and influence. Now we are being asked to supply values. In the discussion architecture journalist Penny Robson asked whether the social engineering criticisms made of Modernism in the past were in fact more appropriate to design today.