Back in the seventies, a group of architects known as “the Whites” built homes, offices and schools that became instant icons of the 20th century. Complicated combinations of cubes and rectangles were interconnected with stairways made of tubular steel, all of it coated in a single shade of purest white inside and out.
Today’s modernists tend to prefer a bit more color. White as far as the eye can see looks a bit too much like February for most of us; but those pristine buildings were great object lessons in the power and potency of white.
