ABSTRACT
The "New York Five" were Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gawthmey, Michael Graves, and John Hejduk, all of New York architects. Whose work appeared in a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1967 that was organized by Arthur Drexler, MoMA's Director of Architecture. They became known as "the Whites" because of the pure Modernist style of architecture that they were producing. Richard Meier's Smith House was without a doubt a landmark achievement. His first major commission was the Bronx Development Center in New York, a comprehensive residential facility for 380 physically and mentally disabled children. His most remarkable works, though, one in which he deviates dramatically from the strictures of Rationalism, is the Jubilee Church in Rome, Italy. Michael Graves started his career, as did the other "Whites," doing residential projects that were inspired by Le Corbusier, such as the Hanselman House and the Snyderman House both in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
