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This exhibition has been postponed until 2016.
In 1928, Philip Johnson, the first curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, came back from a year-long tour of Europe and created an exhibition to show American audiences the revolutionary movement that he had found there. He called it the International Style, an approach that he found in France and Germany, Switzerland and Holland, that shared a belief in modernism, and an aesthetic based on austere machine-like simplicity.
The certainty of that moment has passed. Modernism gave way to the postmodern reaction against it, which in turn faded into obscurity. Now there are signs of a global movement based on new approaches to design and making buildings that, thanks to instant communications, has spread further and faster than modernism.
Guest curated by Patrik Schumacher, The New International Style sets out to explore the range, the roots, and the future of this creative and complex view of the world of design.