It is said that there is a place for everything and everything in its place.
Of course, there is always a place for chaos, but here at the modernist we do think that there should be some order to proceedings. Was it not Le Corbusier himself that claimed, “to create architecture is to put in order”?
So, with this issue, we are exploring the idea of LAYOUT and how modernism has sought – with varying degrees of success – to bring clarity and coherence to our lives via the use of good design and no small amount of ‘rules’.