At the turn of the century Art started to analyse its own forms especially in architecture in response to the collapse of cultural, spiritual and moral order and the increase of science and technology and modernism. Architectures set out to endow architecture with a controlling power so it could create its own destiny as well as its inhabitants. Sparke,P (1995). Architectural modernism according to Sparke,P (1995)

“Set out to control not only the material chaos and fragmentation that resulted from the process of modernisation but also the alienation of the modern man (women were rarely discussed in this context”

One could suggest evidence for the movement’s essential masculine perspective being the repeated emphasis upon rationalisation, standardisation, objectivity and functionality, which ran through modern

Elizabeth Wilson experience of the cities differed from that of men and she felt that the modernist desire to create order in the city threatened to destroy the very characteristics of women. Sparke,P (1995).

Similar conflicts lie between modernity and tradition in fascist Italy. The development of fascist ideology after the war brought about two aspects of the pre war futurists movement. Its revolutionary concern for the restructuring of society and its worship of the machine. They preferred the classical style.

“The path of culture is synonymous with the separation of the ornamental from the functional” Sparks,P (1995).

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