Modernism defined itself as the subjugation of space to human purposes

Evidence

If modernism meant, among other things, the subjugation of space to human purposes, then the rational ordering and control of space as part and parcel of a modern culture founded on rationality and technique, the suppression of spatial barriers and difference, had to be merged with some kind of historical project. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1774

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what modernism’s control of space meant as transforming the experience of space-time — foundation for the later flexible-accumulation contrast.
• XREF: connects to: Modernist architecture necessarily fixed space within a dynamic historical process — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1779