Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Charles Eames, Craig Ellwood and Pierre Koenig. The Case Study House Program houses were intended to be the prototypes of good mass housing in response to postwar shortages in housing and materials. They were also to be constructed from simple, mass-produced, standardized factory products that were readily available and cheaply available. And offered a model of modern living.

Throughout the 1960’s new materials were again transforming furniture design in general and design movement of the next two decades altered peoples perceptions about furniture and interiors. The postwar developments in fiberglass, plastics, glass, Plexiglas, foam rubber and synthetic textiles enabled them to

instigate a revolution in the production of sophisticated mass produced furniture.

By the 1970s, however, in the United States there was a return to a more purist approach to Modernism. In 1972 a group of architects known as The Whites (since practically all their buildings were white, inside and out) published a book called the Five Architects, in which they expressed their desire to return to first principles, in particular to the early work of Le Corbusier.

Richard Meier, a leading member of the group, took up where Le Corbusier had left off, reworking his cubist aesthetic with the benefit of the new materials of the late twentieth century.

The early work of Le Corbusier continues to inspire. In Japan, Le Corbusier’s influence became widespread after WWII. And in the 80s, Japanese architect Tadao Ando created brilliant synthesis of western Modern Movement ideas and traditional Japanese sensibilities.

So the tradition continues. Modernism today constantly finds talented interpreters to adapt and reinvent it in response to the ever-shifting needs of modern life.