Acknowledgments

A Note on the Translation

Introduction
Jean-Louis Cohen

Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia
The End of the Century

A New Century—A New Architecture

Jan Kotera and His Times

Adolf Loos

Cubism

The Advent of Constructivism

Toward a Theory of Constructivism

Epilogue

Postscript

Three Essays

Toward a New Architecture

Ten Years of the Bauhaus

Constructivism and the Liquidation of "Art"

Translator's Notes

Illustration Credits

Selected Bibliography

Index