“All modern creation,” Wagner wrote, “must correspond to the new materials and demands of the present…must illustrate our own better, democratic, self-confident, ideal nature.” and must incorporate the new “colossal technical and scientific achievements” of the age. 【This would indeed seem to be the basis of a purely materialist definition of architecture, a prototype for the simplistic form-follows-function dogma that opponents have identified as the intellectual basis of modern architecture. 】

文中对这最后一句中this是持比较赞成态度的。 this is the basis of ...definition of.... 。this is a prototype for the 【simplistic ... dogma】.the dogma has been identified as the intellectual basis of MA by the opponents. 具体是什么意思呢？我想得有点绕了。