194X–9/11: American Architects and the City
Haus-Rucker-Co, Günter Zamp Kelp, Laurids Ortner, Manfred Ortner, and Klaus Pinter. Palmtree Island (Oasis) Project, New York, New York Perspective. 1971.
The Museum of Modern Art presents 194X–9/11: American Architects and the City, an exhibition that examines the work of leading architects in terms of the history of urban renewal in the United States. The selections range from the idealism of the World War II years through the subsequent criticisms of the 1960s and ‘70s, to today’s post-9/11 period and the debates initiated by the rebuilding of Ground Zero.
On view from 1 July 2011, through 2 January 2012, in Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, the exhibition comprises eighty-five drawings and models drawn from the Museum’s collection by renowned architects such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn, Leon Krier and Steven Holl.