ABSTRACT
It should not be a surprise that New York would be one of the cities that would avidly embrace the Modernist movement. It is also no accident that New York was the home of the Museum of Modern Art, and it was here that the International Style was given its name. In the sixties, Modernists Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo, who headed up the successor firm to Eero Saarinen, easily found commissions in the city and created their most celebrated work, the Ford Foundation Building in New York. I. M. Pei's introduction to the United States was similar to that of Kevin Roche. Pei's practice was centered in Manhattan, but he built less there than one might expect. Philip Johnson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1906 and was proud of his lineage, being descended from the Jansen Family of New Amsterdam. In 1984 Johnson designed one of the most controversial buildings in America, and set the architectural community aghast.
