I blame the, stupid and arrogant, From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe to a large extent.
He wears a very little learning, very, very heavily, and as is his wont he replicates the glossary he consulted in the text to make him seem more learned than he was. His simplistic and frankly wrong thesis - that European modernism is to blame for all the ills of 20th century design that he doesn’t like - happily ignores capitalism and the car which are actually the two most decisive design drivers, in favour of an elitist anti-elitism argument which we are very familiar with from contemporary politics.
