As the International Style spread across the globe, architects looked to break free of the "glass box."
c. 1960 - present
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Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater
The experimental spirit of the Judson Dance Theater transformed art forever.
Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting
Gordon Matta-Clark’s interventions explored modernist architecture and urban decay.
The Berlin Wall as a political symbol
This Cold War icon was much more than just a barrier between East and West.
Breuer, The Whitney Museum of American Art (then The Met Breuer, and now the Frick Madison)
The cantilevered facade of Breuer’s sculptural building reflects his “Cesca” chair from his Bauhaus days.
Zaha Hadid, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Inheritor of an ancient concrete tradition, Hadid bring 20th-century utopianism to her Rome museum design.
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
A powerful accumulation of names is inscribed on slabs of reflective stone that cuts into the earth on the Mall.
Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao
This “miraculous” building brought art, prestige, and economic prosperity to a struggling port city.
Robert Venturi, House in New Castle County, Delaware
Modern architecture had its time in the sun, Venturi argued, but it was time to move on… to the “decorated shed.”
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