What's Wrong With This Building?

Overview

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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Cast

Joanna Simon

Narrator (voice)

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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