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What's Wrong With This Building?
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What's Wrong With This Building?

1990-02-03 · 25 min · Not rated

Documentary

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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Directors
Garth Stein
Production companies
Columbia University School of the Arts, Columbia University, Cinema Guild, S&S Productions
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Joanna SimonNarrator (voice)
Arthur C. DantoSelf
Charles GwathmeySelf
Thomas HovingSelf
Murray LeviSelf
César PelliSelf

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