Thanks to Alex Marshall at the Regional Plan Association for this thoughtful review of two new volumes, including A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, that survey the trajectory of modern innovation. Citing the brio of past pioneers like Victor Horta and Walter Gropius, Marshall asks whether historians of the future will look back at today's megaprojects—say, New York's Second Avenue Subway or East Side Access project—and find equally epochal design intelligence at work, melding form and function for the greater good.
Pictured: Stockholm's T-Centralen Station, designed by Per Olof Ultvedt in 1975. Image credit: Milton Correa/Flickr
