Exhibition
15: Modern Architecture - International Exhibition @ The Museum of Modern
Art
10 February - 23 March 1932
Intentions
10 February - 23 March 1932
Intentions
ÒAmerican
architecture finds itself in a chaos of conflicting and very often unintelligent
building. An introduction to an
integrated and decidedly rational mode of building is sorely needed. The stimulation and direction which an
exhibition of this type can give to contemporary architectural thought
is incalculable. As an
example, America has for a long time sought a definite and practicable program for housing our
minimum wage earners, especially the factory workers. How welcome would be a display of
solutions to this problem arrived at by American and European experts!Ó
(Appendix 2, Exhibition
proposal by Philip Johnson (February 10, 1931), in Terence Riley, The
International Style: Exhibition 15 and The Museum of Modern Art, p.218)