Austria was one of the most important centers in the early development of Modernism, the new style of architecture that took form in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Vienna was a particularly fertile site for Modernism’s evolution, as some architects greatly disdained what they considered the excessive decorativeness of the buildings constructed there in the preceding two centuries. Proponents of Modernism argued for a geometrically simplified, unornamented architecture whose forms, materials, and methods of construction were appropriate to the new age of industrialism and engineering. TransModernity presents completed projects by three Austrian firms, illustrating the current state in the century-long evolution of Modernism.