May 1, 2009
The Legacy of a Modernist Museum; The Threat to Sustainability
When John Russell Pope's National Gallery opened in 1941, prominent Modernists assailed its classical form as hopelessly outdated. Popular notions at the time, however, held that Modernism could not be monumental, a notion that Modernist architects would soon challenge.
By the time I.M. Pei's East Building
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