Modernists Abroad
Between 1926 and 1930, Alfred H. Barr Jr., the first director of the Museum of Modern Art, his wife Marga and Philip Johnson, the museum's first curator of architecture, travelled to Europe several times. Drawn to new ideas and techniques, they were deeply transformed by what they saw there.
These videos capture the essence of the time with a nine-city visual journey, including the new architecture and design that would inspire Good Design at midcentury.