There was always another modernism. Not the white-walled, minimal, austere variety but an organic, warm, eccentric and often totally bizarre architecture, which presents as an outlier but has always been there as modernism’s mad but much more fun alter ego.
The modernism we tend to know – the Bauhaus, brutalism, the international style – emerged around the end of the first world war. But so did organic architecture – this odd, parallel modernism, which grew from the expressionism…