Preface -- Organization, modernism, and architecture -- The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical -- What caused modernist architecture? -- Industrialization, technology, and the state: Britain, France, Germany -- Backwardness and revolution: Italy, Russia, Spain -- Modernism without modernity: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina -- Sponsorship, professionalization, and modernist architecture -- The enduring promise of modernist architecture -- Appendix: leading architects.