Shortly after the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) was founded in New York in 1929, the young architectural critic Philip Johnson was ap-pointed curator of the department of architecture and design. With his second exhibition, the 26-year-old made a profound impression on the American architectural scene. “The International Style”, staged in 1932, not only introduced the formal ideas of the Bauhaus to America; it coined the name of a whole movement. It was followed over the years by other exhibitions of signal importance, such as Bernard Rudofsky’s “Architecture without Architects” (1964) and “Deconstructivist Architecture” (1988). Another important activity has been the publication of monographs on famous architects. CS