MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr.

7.5 x 10 hardcover book with 101 pages with 53 b/w plates and 28 architectural plans. Catalogue for an exhibition which brought to the American attention the high quality of modern architecture in England in the 1930's, including work by Wells Coates, E. Maxwell Fry, Joseph Emberton, Frederick Gibberd, Oliver Hill, G.A. Jellicoe, Tecton, E. Owen Williams, F.R.S. Yorke, and Adams, Holden & Pearson, among other British architects, as well as works by Europeans including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, William Lescaze and Mendelsohn and Chermayeff.

Contents

• The British Nineteenth Century and Modern Architecture by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr.
• Elements of English Housing Practice by Catherine K. Bauer
• Modern Architecture in England by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr.
• Plates
• Catalog of the Exhibition

Architects include Joseph Paxton; Alexander Thomson; Charles Rennie Mackintosh; Marcel Breuer; Sir John Burnet, Tait, & Lorne; Serge Chermayeff; Anthony Chitty; Wells Coates; Connell, Ward & Lucas; Joseph Emberton; Maxwell E. Fry; Frederick Gibberd; Walter Gropius with Maxwell E. Fry; Valentine Harding; Oliver Hill; Geoffrey Allan Jellicoe; William Lescaze; Mendelsohn & Chermayeff; Christopher Nicholson; A.V. Pilichowski; Godfrey Samuel; Slater & Moberly; Marshall Sisson; Tecton; Sir E. Owen Williams; S.A. Heaps; and, Adams, Holden, & Pearson.

Terence Riley noted that the early tastemakers at MoMA understood their job was to separate "the wheat from the chaff." Few people rose to that challenge with more vigor than Philip Johnson, the young head of the Department of Architecture and Design.

Alfred Barr's insistence on including Architecture and Design as a fully functioning department within MoMA was a radical curatorial departure, which seems only obvious today.

Philip Johnson's 1928 visit to the Bauhaus Dessau sparked Johnson's imagination and solidified his role as a proselytizer for the European avant-garde architecture. "We were proud to be avant-gardists; we wore our enthusiasm as a badge of honor that distinguished us as culturally superior to those around us." Johnson said.

From this plateau of cultural superiority, Johnson and his MoMA collaborators Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and Henry-Russell Hitchcock eventually labeled this architecture "The International Style." The rest is history.

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