The Washington Post, April 10th, 2004
"The only possible point of departure for our artistic creation is modern life," declared Austrian architect Otto Wagner in 1895. The statement provides a leitmotif for the splendid exhibition now on view at the National Building Museum: "Envisioning Architecture -- Drawings From the Museum of Modern Art." MoMA started collecting architectural drawings in 1947, nearly two decades after its founding, but the museum definitively made up for lost time in both quality and quantity. The 190 drawings in the show, a representative sampling of the collection, clearly were acquired with the same comman...
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