Sophie Higgerson [BIAAS-152404]

This research project examines Austrian architect Lois Welzenbacher’s inclusion in the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition on the International Style. Despite his inclusion, Welzenbacher’s work was harshly reviewed by the exhibition’s American curators, Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, and he remains little known in the United States today. The project will investigate why Welzenbacher was ultimately marginally included in discourses of architectural modernity directed from the United States, which uplifted numerous other European architects.