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Modern Architects - MoMA 1932

Modern Architects - MoMA 1932

$55.00

Alfred Barr, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson and Lewis Mumford

Published by Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa, Athena and MoMA, 2011

SKU S03313


The little-known book from the most famous architectural exhibition of the 20th century. ”More a manifesto than a catalog”, this facsimile edition is the testimony of the exhibition that in 1932 inaugurated the Department of Architecture of the brand new Museum of Modern Art in New York. Edited at the same time as “The International Style: Architecture since 1922”, also by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, it is often confused with. But there are fundamental differences between the two that justify the distance between their titles. “Modern Architects” is not a stubborn search for a Style, which, as in Gothic, should be international, removed from personalities and discussion of works in particular. Modern Architects is the wonder of a journey to Europe and an American anxiety for original contributions more than its eternal imitation of European styles.
The most famous architectural exhibition in the twentieth century, both ambiguous as controversial, grasped an unknown beauty of modern architecture in a selection of works perceived as keystones of modernity, many of which are today forgotten, and which this book recovers, in an edition where the sequence itself is a piece of history of modernity, of trying to be as authentic as possible.

Includes booklet with insightful essays by Barry Bergdoll, “Layers of Polemic” and Delfim Sardo, “Towards rethinking Modernism”

199 pages
26,5 x 20 cm
Hardcover with booklet
Fac simile of 1st edition (1932)
English