Born in Germany, mostly at the Bauhaus, this kind of architecture was popularized in America, first with the publication of Henry-Russell Hitchcock's and Philip Johnson's book The
International Style
(1932), and then with exhibitions at the MOMA, which became its principal publicist. To quote the cultural historian Russell Lynes, If few people liked the International Style when it first appeared in America, it was the MOMA that did more than any other institution to bring about its...
