re-conceiving the history of 20thc architecture

As historians confront the geographic and epistemic changes of climate change and other environmental catastrophes, the historical forces seen to condition the developments of modern architecture will be reconceived. Much of the early historiography of the modern movement was already concerned with climate, resource and comfort issues that are not far from contemporary tropes of sustainable design. However, a more momentous historiographic transition is taking place, one that shifts emphasis away from an emergence of ‘modernity’ out of the potentials and pitfalls of industrialisation, and traces instead a history of the ‘environmentalisation’ of the architectural discourse as it confronts new pressures in the 20th century. Such a history takes into account implicit and explicit interactions between an architectural modernism and a proto-environmentalism that converge through concerns with cultural, technological, and bureaucratic developments.