Buildings for Business and Government

Summary information

Date

Wed Feb 27 1957 until Mon Apr 29 1957

Location

MoMA ^{type:exhibition building spaces}
11 West 53rd St. ^{type:thoroughfare names}

Carried out by

The Museum of Modern Art

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Concurrent exhibitions

Exhibitions that overlap with this exhibition, in this dataset. Double-click an item in the timeline to view the corresponding exhibition page.

1956

1957

December 1956

January 1957

February 1957

March 1957

April 1957

May 1957

June 1957

Buildings for Business and Government

Allan Kaprow

Myron Stout

Myron Stout: Drawings-Paintings

Lilly Brody

Jean Follett

Paintings by Cajori, De Groot, Dodd, Fine, Groell, Hazelet, Ippolito, Isquith, F. Mitchell, Pearlstein, Ortman; Sculpture by King, Rocklin

Lois Dodd: Paintings

Sally Hazelet: Paintings

Nora Speyer: Paintings

Drawings by Birmelin, Cantor; Sculpture by Rocklin

The Graphic Work of Edvard Munch

Travel Posters

Recent American Acquisitions

Cohen, Kohn, Schapiro: New Talent in the Penthouse

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1957-02	1957-03	Allan Kaprow
2	1957-03	1957-03	Myron Stout
3	1957-03	1957-03	Myron Stout: Drawings-Paintings
4	1957-03	1957-04	Lilly Brody
5	1957-04	1957-05	Jean Follett

#	Start	End	Title
1	1956-01	1965-02	Paintings by Cajori, De Groot, Dodd, Fine, Groell, Hazelet, Ippolito, Isquith, F. Mitchell, Pearlstein, Ortman; Sculpture by King, Rocklin
2	1957-02	1957-03	Lois Dodd: Paintings
3	1957-03	1957-03	Sally Hazelet: Paintings
4	1957-03	1957-04	Nora Speyer: Paintings
5	1957-04	1957-05	Drawings by Birmelin, Cantor; Sculpture by Rocklin

#	Start	End	Title
1	1957-02	1957-03	The Graphic Work of Edvard Munch
2	1957-03	1957-04	Travel Posters
3	1957-03	1957-04	Recent American Acquisitions
4	1957-04	1957-05	Cohen, Kohn, Schapiro: New Talent in the Penthouse

Artists

There were 6 persons who influenced this exhibition.

Persons are ordered alphabetically by surname. Select a letter in the concertina to continue. Click on the person's name to view further information.

Philip Johnson

Biographical statement American, 1906–2005

Born 1906 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 2005

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Philip Johnson

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Philip Johnson was involved in 16 exhibitions across 8 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1950s with 4 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s,1980s,1990s,2000s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1934-06	1934-09	MoMA	Modern Housing Exhibition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
2	1945-05	1945-09	MoMA	Tomorrow's Small House: Models and Plans
3	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House
4	1947-09	1948-01	MoMA	Mies van der Rohe

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1952-06	1952-07	MoMA	Architecture in the New York Area
2	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
3	1957-02	1957-04	MoMA	Buildings for Business and Government
4	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1962-10		MoMA	The Museum of Modern Art Builds
2	1968-09	1968-11	MoMA	Architecture of Museums

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-10	1971-01	MoMA	Work in Progress: Architecture by Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph
2	1979-02	1979-04	MoMA	Transformations in Modern Architecture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1983-01	1983-03	MoMA	Three New Skyscrapers

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1999-06	1999-08	MoMA PS1	Young Architects Program 1999 (MoMA PS1): Philip Johnson: Dance Pavilion

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation

Helmuth, Yamasaki and Leinweber

Skidmore Owings & Merrill

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Biographical statement American, born Germany. 1886–1969

Born 1886 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1969

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was involved in 64 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 14 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1932-02	1932-03	Crown Building	Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
2	1933-04	1933-04	MoMA	Objects: 1900 and Today
3	1933-05	1933-05	MoMA	Fruit and Flower Paintings
4	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
5	1936-03	1936-04	MoMA	Cubism and Abstract Art
6	1936-06	1936-09	MoMA	Modern Exposition Architecture
7	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
2	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
3	1946-01	1946-01	MoMA	If You Want to Build a House
4	1946-11	1947-01	MoMA	Modern Rooms of the Last Fifty Years
5	1947-09	1948-01	MoMA	Mies van der Rohe
6	1948-09	1948-12	MoMA	Collage
7	1949-08	1949-10	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture in Architecture
8	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-02	1950-05	MoMA	Mies van der Rohe
2	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
3	1952-12	1953-02	MoMA	De Stijl
4	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
5	1953-08	1953-10	MoMA	Thonet Furniture
6	1953-12	1954-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions, 1946–1953: Department of Architecture and Design
7	1957-02	1957-04	MoMA	Buildings for Business and Government
8	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-12	1961-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1964-05		MoMA	Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design
3	1966-01		MoMA	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Society of Architecture Historians
4	1966-02	1966-03	MoMA	Mies van der Rohe: Architectural Drawings from the Collection
5	1968-09	1968-11	MoMA	Architecture of Museums
6	1969-08	1969-10	MoMA	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Memorial

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-05	1970-08	MoMA	Preliminary Drawings
2	1970-12	1971-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Design Collection
3	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
4	1973-07	1973-09	MoMA	Collage and the Photo-Image
5	1974-02	1974-09	MoMA	Architectural Models from the Collection
6	1974-11	1975-02	MoMA	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Five Projects
7	1977-03	1977-05	MoMA	Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Furniture and Drawings
8	1979-02	1979-04	MoMA	Transformations in Modern Architecture
9	1979-08	1979-09	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Architecture and Design
10	1979-11	1980-01	MoMA	Art of the Twenties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-02	1980-04	MoMA	Printed Art: A View of Two Decades
2	1986-02	1986-04	MoMA	Mies van der Rohe Centennial Exhibition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
2	1992-09		MoMA	Selections from the Collection
3	1995-06	1995-09	MoMA	Civic Architecture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-08	MoMA	Modern Living I
2	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	Seeing Double
3	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	Modern Living II
4	2001-06	2001-09	MoMA	Mies in Berlin
5	2004-07	2004-09	MoMA	Tall Buildings
6	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
7	2004-11	2005-03	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Inaugural Installation
8	2005-04	2005-10	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Rotation 2
9	2005-12	2006-04	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Rotation 2
10	2006-04	2006-07	MoMA	Architecture and Design Drawings: Rotation 3
11	2006-11	2007-03	MoMA	OMA in Beijing: China Central Television Headquarters by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren
12	2007-04	2007-06	MoMA	75 Years of Architecture at MoMA
13	2009-04	2010-02	MoMA	In Situ: Architecture and Landscape
14	2009-11	2010-01	MoMA	Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-11	2011-05	MoMA	Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture
2	2011-07	2012-01	MoMA	194X-9/11: American Architects and the Cit
3	2012-01	2012-12	MoMA	Public Spaces Changes 2012
4	2012-03	2013-03	MoMA	Shaping Modernity: Design 1880–1980, Part 2
5	2013-07	2014-01	MoMA	Cut 'n' Paste: From Architectural Assemblage to Collage City
6	2013-10	2014-10	MoMA	Designing Modern Women 1890–1990

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Eero Saarinen Edward Durell Stone

Eero Saarinen

Biographical statement American, born Finland. 1910–1961

Born 1910 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1961

Nationality American

Gender Male

External information resources for Eero Saarinen

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Eero Saarinen was involved in 23 exhibitions across 7 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s,1950s with 7 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1970s,1990s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1938-06	1938-09	Rockefeller Center	Wheaton College Competition
2	1939-02	1939-03	MoMA	Williamsburg Competition

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-01	1940-03	MoMA	Smithsonian Competition
2	1942-09	1942-09	MoMA	Modern Architecture for the Modern School
3	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Design for Use
4	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
5	1945-02	1945-05	MoMA	Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage
6	1947-03	1947-06	MoMA	Printed Textiles for the Home
7	1949-04	1949-10	MoMA	The House in the Museum Garden

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-07	1950-09	MoMA	Three Modern Styles
2	1950-11	1951-01	MoMA	Good Design
3	1953-01	1953-03	MoMA	Built in USA: Post-War Architecture
4	1955-02	1955-03	MoMA	Good Design: 5th Anniversary
5	1957-02	1957-04	MoMA	Buildings for Business and Government
6	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	20th Century Design from the Museum Collection
7	1959-02	1959-04	MoMA	Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1961-09	1961-11	MoMA	Eero Saarinen, 1910–1961
2	1964-05		MoMA	Philip L. Goodwin Galleries of Architecture and Design

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1979-02	1979-04	MoMA	Transformations in Modern Architecture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2004-11	2005-11	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Inaugural Installation
2	2005-12	2006-04	MoMA	Architecture and Design: Rotation 2
3	2009-05	2011-01	MoMA	What was Good Design? MoMA's Message 1944–56

Edward Durell Stone

Biographical statement American, 1902–1978

Born 1902 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1978

Nationality American

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Edward Durell Stone was involved in 17 exhibitions across 5 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 7 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1970s,1980s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1939-02	1939-03	Rockefeller Center	Three Centuries of American Architecture
2	1939-02	1939-03	MoMA	Williamsburg Competition
3	1939-05	1939-09	Rockefeller Center	Houses and Housing: Industrial Art

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-01	1940-03	MoMA	Smithsonian Competition
2	1941-09	1941-11	MoMA	Organic Design in Home Furnishings
3	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Built in the U.S.A., 1932–44
4	1945-02	1945-05	MoMA	Integrated Building: Kitchen, Bathroom, and Storage
5	1945-08	1945-09	MoMA	Textile Design
6	1946-11	1947-01	MoMA	Modern Rooms of the Last Fifty Years
7	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-11	1951-01	MoMA	Good Design
2	1952-06	1952-07	MoMA	Architecture in the New York Area
3	1952-09	1952-11	MoMA	Good Design
4	1955-11	1956-02	MoMA	Latin American Architecture Since 1945
5	1957-02	1957-04	MoMA	Buildings for Business and Government

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1979-02	1979-04	MoMA	Transformations in Modern Architecture

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1989-05	1989-08	MoMA	A Modern Museum: The 1939 Goodwin/Stone Building

Buildings for Business and Government

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

Hansa Gallery

Tanager Gallery

MoMA

Artists

J

Philip Johnson

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (4)

1950s (4)

1960s (2)

1970s (2)

1980s (1)

1990s (1)

2000s (1)

L

M

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Exhibitions

1930s (7)

1940s (8)

1950s (8)

1960s (6)

1970s (10)

1980s (2)

1990s (3)

2000s (14)

2010s (6)

R

S

Eero Saarinen

Exhibitions

1930s (2)

1940s (7)

1950s (7)

1960s (2)

1970s (1)

1990s (1)

2000s (3)

Edward Durell Stone

Exhibitions

1930s (3)

1940s (7)

1950s (5)

1970s (1)

1980s (1)

Acknowledgements