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Initially produced as the catalog to accompany a controversial and
groundbreaking 1932 Museum of Modern Art show of the then new
architecture emerging in Europe and America, The International
Style quickly became the definitive statement of the principles
underlying the work of such giants as Mies van der Rohe, Le
Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and other pioneers. It might be said
that Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson discovered as well
as defined "the International Style," and over the decades their
book has served as both a flashpoint for criticism and a frame for
growth in the architectural profession. It has never been out of
print in over sixty years. This new edition has been completely
redesigned and reset, and it features a new foreword by Philip
Johnson, who reflects on the legacy of the International Style and
examines the still-precarious power of architecture in our public
life.
This work sets out to describe the aesthetic qualities intrinsic to
the work of such architects as Le Corbusier, Oud, Gropius and Mies
van der Rohe. The authors observed the distinguishing features that
made possible a definition of a new "style": emphasis on volume as
opposed to mass; regularity as opposed to symmetry; and dependence
on the intrinsic elegance of materials as opposed to applied
decoration. First published in 1932 to coincide with an
architectural exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, this reissue
contains a new foreword by Philip Johnson reflecting on the impact
of these principles over 60 years after they were first set forth.
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