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Architecture
Moquade, Walter | November 16, 1963 issue

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Stairs, the photographic exhibition in the snug cellar of the New York-based Museum of Modern Art, is a triumph of its type, which is the unpretentious, portable photographic display. Credited to designer Bernard Rudofsky and the museum's staff, it offers a collection of pictures of interesting architectural ascents, sets of risers and treads, extraordinary solutions to that ordinary old problem of getting people up and down from floor to floor. There are but few words accompanying the pictures, and no heavy ones. Rudofsky's captions are pleasantly incidental; "If we ever learn to walk again, stairs may once more find their place in architecture" is about the sum of his philosophic message.

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EXHIBITIONS; ARCHITECTURE & photography; PHOTOGRAPHY; ARCHITECTURE; ART museums; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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