The V&A are currently running a huge exhibition on 20th century
Modernism. Here's a review and opinion from the Gruaniad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1748821,00.html

The last paragraphs:

The happiest valediction on the V&A show is that at least peoples
across Europe rejected all it celebrates. They denied modernism's
odious utopianism. They refused to live as they were ordered. They
hated glass buildings. They did not buy abstract art or listen to
musique concrète. They refused to do mass callisthenics. They turned
their back on "less is more" in favour of a humane environment and
courtesy towards the past. They are doing so to this day. But think of
the damage that was done.