“Modern Architecture: International Exhibition”

“Modern Architecture: International Exhibition”

First of all, I would say that the "Modern Architecture: International Exhibition" is being in the annals and will stay for centuries. 

In 1932, New York City was already a very influential city in the world, therefore, the out standing exhibition was meant to be there, in the Museum of Modern Art.

The International Exhibition was showing to the world the ambition and also what was America capable of. 

Curated by two American architects and historians, Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock were looking to show off emerging architecture style characterized by geometry and no ornaments, thus called "International Style". 

As Johnson said it was "probably the first fundamentally original and widely distributed style since the Gothic.” 

Besides, I believe that the exhibition gave to the architectural world its rules and principles for the Modern architecture.

Second of all, I would say that the exhibition was designed in a very specific way. 

The design was very clean and geometric, consequently, this is why we could observed only lines and no curves such as with the placement of the Art pieces where they are aligned next to each other. 

Moreover, the tables and stands are rectangles, which actually reminds me of Mies Van Der Rohe's precision and style with the Barcelona Pavilion. 

I believe that the exhibition designer s achieved a very high level of likeness to the "International Style". 

Moreover, even if the pictures are in back and white, I cannot stop myself from thinking and believing that the space would look the same; made out of black and white. However, if colors they are, I would go for the neutral ones such as brown, beige or grey.  

Finally, I am deeply thinking that the International Exhibition was a proof of the United States power but also Open-Mindedness. 

Léa Blanchard