Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Part I. What Did the Bauhaus Stand For? -- What Was the Bauhaus? -- What Is the Bauhaus Legacy-Modern Design? -- What Came Before? -- How Did Modern Design Change the World? -- What Does Modern Art Have to Do With It? -- When Did Modern Design Stop Looking New? -- What Replaced It? -- What Comes Next? -- Part II. Was the Bauhaus Right? -- The Language of Vision -- Glass -- Functionalism -- Less is More -- The Machine as Model -- The Mass-Produced House -- Streamlining -- Ergonomics -- Social Engineering -- Urban Planning -- A People's Car -- The Cult of Creativity -- Part III. Is There Life In the Bauhaus Ideal? -- Rehabilitate Metaphor -- Learn From the Past -- Don't Give Engineers Too Much Credit -- Problem-Solving Is Not the Only Design Strategy -- Don't Abandon the Dream of Design -- Annotated Bibliography.