PHOTOGRAPHY OR LIFE / POPULAR MIES / COLUMNS OF SMOKE, VOLUME 1

'Photography or life' and 'Popular Mies' make up the first volume of Columns of Smoke, a collection of essays which review the bases on which modernity has been constructed. Contrasting the canonical images of the history of twentieth-century architecture with ano nymous graphic materials or pictures from the popular press, Lahuerta creates an illuminating dialogue that dismantles stereotypes b y revealing a less perfect but more plausible idea of modernity.