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Description: American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture
Early in his career, Philip Johnson (1906–2005) clearly aspired to be American modernism’s voice-over, the off-camera observer who sets the scene and analyzes the unfolding drama from a position of cool detachment (fig. 14). As co-curator, with the architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock, of the groundbreaking “Modern Architecture: International Exhibition” at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1932, and as the coauthor of the influential publication (entitled The International Style: …
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.39-73
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00012.004

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