Postwar modernist building choices were driven by cost and technology, not style ideology

Evidence

The dictates of costs and efficiency (particularly important in relation to the less affluent populations served), coupled with organizational and technological constraints, surely played as important a role as ideological concern for style. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 468

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Function followed from experimental form, not the other way round, in modernism. — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 93; Rent controls, not disaster, caused the postwar housing shortage. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 420; Cheap energy and mortgage pressure defeated energy-efficient postwar housing design — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 214 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Function followed from experimental form, not the other way round, in modernism. #contradicts (0.80) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 93