“Although today’s taste
has returned to more texture and contrast, in a pioneering sense the museum
building is still effective architecture.
It is best understood if we realize that the architecture of that date
was undergoing a necessary cleansing process to rid it of the superfluous
elements of traditional design that had ceased to have meaning in terms of modern
machine production. If the
insistence on this bare simplicity was overstrict, it succeeded in its purpose
of re-establishing sensitivity to the important basic elements of architecture
– the wall, the frame, the nature of materials, and the proper relationship of
the essential parts to the whole.”
- “Four Walking Tours of Modern Architecture in
New York City,” The Museum of Modern Art and the Municipal Art Society of New
York, Prepared by Ada Louise Huxtable; Distributed by Doubleday & Company,
Inc., Third Printing 1966.
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