I have mixed feelings about MoMA and its relationship to architecture. Its first head of architecture, the former Nazi-sympathiser Philip Johnson, famously curated the Modern Architecure exhibition in 1932 that helped to distil architectural modernism into the “international style”. 

Johnson arguably did more than anyone else to turn what had been a diffuse and varied movement into something far more sterile and commodifiable. Smoothing over regional diversity and stylistic heterogeneity, he oversaw the development of the dominant strain of modernist architecture to the point where it became the house style of globalised corporate capitalism.