Modern Architecture: International Exhibition

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Modern Architecture: International Exhibition was a landmark 1932 Museum of Modern Art show that helped define and popularize the International Style in modern architecture.

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instanceOf MoMA exhibition
architecture exhibition
museum exhibition
aim to define the International Style in modern architecture
to popularize modern architecture to the American public
alsoKnownAs Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
surface form: International Style exhibition

Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
surface form: Modern Architecture: International Exhibition 1932
associatedWithConcept International Style
associatedWithPublication Modern Architecture: International Exhibition self-linksurface differs
surface form: The International Style: Architecture Since 1922
city New York City
country United States of America
surface form: United States
curatedBy Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Philip Johnson
curatorialApproach didactic presentation of architectural principles
decade 1930s
featuredArchitect Gerrit Rietveld
J. J. P. Oud
Le Corbusier
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Raymond Hood
Richard Neutra
Walter Gropius
field architecture
hasExhibitionCatalogue Modern Architecture: International Exhibition catalogue
influenced acceptance of modernist architecture in the United States
architectural discourse on modernism
institutionTypeOfOrganizer art museum
language English
locatedIn Museum of Modern Art
surface form: Museum of Modern Art, New York City
medium architectural drawings
models
photographs
openingDate 1932-02-09
organizedBy Museum of Modern Art
surface form: MoMA Department of Architecture

Museum of Modern Art
organizedUnderDirector Alfred H. Barr Jr.
relatedMovement Bauhaus
Modernism
significance helped codify the principles of the International Style
introduced European modernist architects to a broad American audience
landmark exhibition in the history of modern architecture
subject International Style
surface form: International Style in architecture

modern architecture
theme avoidance of applied ornament
regularity rather than symmetry
volume rather than mass
title Modern Architecture: International Exhibition self-link
year 1932

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Henry-Russell Hitchcock curated Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition title Modern Architecture: International Exhibition self-link
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition alsoKnownAs Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
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Modern Architecture: International Exhibition alsoKnownAs Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
this entity surface form: International Style exhibition
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition associatedWithPublication Modern Architecture: International Exhibition self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: The International Style: Architecture Since 1922