10.26686/wgtn.12703094.v1 Joanna Merwood-Salisbury Joanna Merwood-Salisbury Modern Architecture and Luxury: Aesthetics and the Evolution of the Modern Subject Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington 2020 Uncategorised value 2020-07-24 03:02:04 Journal contribution https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/journal_contribution/Modern_Architecture_and_Luxury_Aesthetics_and_the_Evolution_of_the_Modern_Subject/12703094 A book review of Robin Schuldenfrei, Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900–1933 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). This book challenges the canonical interpretation of two of the most revered institutions in the history of modern architecture—the Werkbund and the Bauhaus—and presents a critical interpretation of the relationship between modern architecture and luxury, which first appeared a generation ago.