LAS DIEZ MAQUETAS DE LA MODERN ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION, 1932.

It is possible that the architectural exhibition of greatest influence in diffusing the Modern Movement was the show organized by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock at the Museum of Modern Art of New York in 1932. It was initially intended to offer the public a sample of ten scale models by the ten European and American architects most involved in the avant-garde, requesting each to submit the model of a project designed specifically for the exhibition. In the end, they were given somewhat greater freedom, as the exhibition was fleshed out with a selection of photographs of the work that each of them had built. Nonetheless, the most important items were the scale models, the most highly thought of being the one provided by Mies van der Rohe. This text considers the models displayed by all of the architects in the light of MoMA archives and other sources. It also looks at the relevance they had as a system of representation suited to spreading what the organizers eventually called International Style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]