What's Wrong With This Building?

What's Wrong With This Building?

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1990•25 min•Documentary
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Joanna Simon
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Arthur C. Danto
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Charles Gwathmey
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Thomas Hoving
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Murray Levi
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César Pelli
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This film, which documents a controversy over plans to alter the original architectural design of the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines some of the problems raised by the decision, including Modernist and Post-Modernist styles, architecture as art, the responsibility of art museums to the public, and the role of the architect
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