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Also Known As Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
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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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Milestone Year
1932 1
Milestone Date
1932-02-09 2
Location
New York City, United States 1
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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.

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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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
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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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Wikipedia: Philip Johnson
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