“An impressive and excellent work of scholarship.”—Peter Sealy, <i>JSAH</i><br /><br />“Through words, and 157 wonderfully curated images, Stierli describes the arrival of montage as a (and possibly <i>the</i>) dominant shaper of modernity, deftly charting its rise and multiple appearances through the avant-garde, architecture and cinema.”—Simon von Wolkenstein, <i>Architectural Theory Review</i><br /><br />“With elegant prose and excellent illustrations, Stierli reconciles erudition and clarity to explain the confluence of architecture, photography, film, and the visual arts in the crucible of modernity”— Luis Fernández-Galiano, <i>Arquitectura Viva</i><br /><br />Finalist for the 2019 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize<br /><br />Listed on Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles List for 2019<br />  <br /><br />“A stunning, complex reassessment of architectural modernism, recast in its very essence through lucid discussions of significant relationships like Mies van der Rohe and Dada, and Eisenstein and Constructivism.”—Jean-Louis Cohen, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University<br /><br /><i>"Montage and the Metropolis</i> is a substantial achievement. The author provides an elegant and compelling history of architectural montage in modernism, with a provocative extension to the postmodern.”—Claire Zimmerman, author of <i>Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century</i><br /><br />“<i>Montage and the Metropolis</i> is a landmark contribution to our understanding of how modern architecture emerged in dialogue with film, photography, and the visual arts.”—Edward Dimendberg, author of <i>Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images</i><br /><br />