75 Years of architecture at MoMA

Ninja December 4th, 2007

What:
75 Years of Architecture at MoMA

When:
November 16, 2007–March 10, 2008

Where:
Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd St
New York, NY map

Marcel Kammerer
Royal Hunting Tent

Frank Lloyd Wright
St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie Towers

MoMA’s Department of Architecture, founded in 1932, was the world’s first curatorial department of its kind. This exhibition of drawings and models from the collection celebrates the department’s seventy-fifth birthday and demonstrates the development of its collecting practice, with several recent acquisitions on view. The installation examines themes in the history of modern architecture—including organicism and expressionism; urbanism; visionary architecture; and the art of drawing—that were overlooked in MoMA’s inaugural architecture exhibition, Modern Architecture: An International Exhibition, which defined the International Style for several generations.