Volume 22, Number 19 · November 27, 1975
Modern Architecture in Question
By Ada Louise Huxtable
The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts October 29, 1975-January 4, 1976
an exhibition presented at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Museum of Modern Art's major fall exhibition, 'The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts,' is clearly meant as an object lesson to architects (particularly to young ones) and a question raiser for everyone. These questions are serious and heretical ones about the doctrine and dogma of modern architecture—the movement that the museum was sublimely instrumental in establishing. They are part of a broader questioning of the whole modern movement reflected in a rising interest in the work of the rejected Academy, the establishment mainstream in all of the arts against which the modernists rebelled.
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