1. This essay is a revised version of the plenary address I presented in Glasgow at the annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, 8 June 2017.
2. For a recent collection that addresses some of the links among these designers, see Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, der Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt, and Deutschen Nationalkomitee von ICOMOS, eds., “Eine Stadt müssen wir erbauen, eine ganze Stadt!” Die Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt auf der Mathildenhöhe (Wiesbaden: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, 2017).
3. Alan Crawford, “The Tea Rooms and Domesticity,” in Charles Rennie Mackintosh, ed. Wendy Kaplan (Glasgow: Glasgow Museums, 1996), 263–89. See also Perilla Kinchin, Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875–1975 (Oxford: White Cockade, 1991).
4. The 2018 annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians included a session titled “The Audience for Architectural History in the Twenty-First Century,” chaired by Danielle Wilkens and Jonathan Kewley.
5. Beatriz Colomina, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994).