Abstract

Architecture

A house that is a sort of box or aggregation of boxes, flat top, flat sides with plenty of glass in them, color generally white, and the whole thing preferably raised on stilts, this, loosely described, is what people were given to see at the Museum of Modern Art. Under the title "The International Style" it will travel thence through the leading museums of the country, on a tour of three years. Whether "style" or not, what the show centers on is certainly the most advanced Continental technique. The adventure is attractively new because really not unsafe. The "style" comes attested, it has a history, and the book about it by Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, and others, issued in conjunction with the show, is in itself a valuable architectural record.