In February 1932 the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened Modern Architecture: International Exhibition, curated by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson. The show and its accompanying book gave the new European architecture its American name, the International Style, and framed modernism as a style, a framing its European founders never fully accepted.
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CIAM and the 1932 International Style exhibition were parallel vehicles for propagating the same modernist architectural doctrine in Europe and the United States.
Wright was among the architects featured in the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition
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Mies was among the architects featured in the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition
Philip Johnson co-curated the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition with Henry-Russell Hitchcock, giving the new European architecture its American name.
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Gropius was among the architects featured in the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition
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The exhibition Modern Architecture: International Exhibition ran from February 9 to March 23, 1932, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
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