I don't know of any studies, but I found "From Bauhaus to Our House" a worthwhile read: http://www.amazon.com/From-Bauhaus-Our-House-Wolfe/dp/0312429142 http:/

I don't know of any studies, but I found "From Bauhaus to Our House" a worthwhile read: http://www.amazon.com/From-Bauhaus-Our-House-Wolfe/dp/0312429142 http://www.amazon.com/From-Bauhaus-Our-House-Wolfe/dp/031242... It discusses how Gropius started off with more of a continental arts-and-crafts outlook, but that increasing competition for the intellectual and political purist high-ground lead to what we call, despairingly, the international style. A similar dynamic has played out with software UX: people were producing garish (but usable) UX with drop shadows, etc. and along came the anti-bourgeoisie puritans. They had a point, of course (they always do) but their solution was worse than the original problem.