history study boot Moma Arh. Johnson: Writings tion, their designs are apt to be taken from the Jaoul Houses by Le Corbusier. The regular skeletal rhythms of the International Style are gone. The intent is strength, originality, and a certain crudeness. In this country we have brilliant examples in the work of Rudolph of Yale, ° Katselas of Pittsburgh; much not built, as indeed is the case in England, but coming, Phe ratalist accicudelmeles, however strangely, intoythe other popular * direction, which, to use the British word fisiNeo=HistoricismaTo many, this idea of a return to an interest in history is a slap at the whole Modern Movement, capital M, capital M. I claim that it is not. In the time of the Bauhaus and the time of the early days at Harvard, history was not considered a proper study. And today, how different! We find ourselves now all wrapped up in reminiscence. We cannot today not know history. Ie’s « stimulating and new feeling of freedom. The English and Italians are apt to look back over a shorter period than are we; to de Stijl, of, for example, late Corbu; but in essence the new view of history is a new and stimulating impulse. We no longer have to judge buildings by how litele or how much history they have in them. It is not neo-Baroque, it is not / anti-international, it is not anti-Modern, itvistomly:fainelyrantichaniction- (Case! IeUisjalsorslightlyrantisrational]-buc in being anti-rational, aren't ‘we merely following in the philosophical trend of our day? We have no ‘wish co revolt against the past; we can acknowledge the leadership of our great elders. Burpwescanberfreer