What's Wrong With This Building?

Story

Synopsis

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

Director

Garth Stein

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

3 February 1990

Ensemble

Cast

• Joanna Simon

  Narrator (voice)

• Arthur C. Danto

  Self

• Charles Gwathmey

  Self

• Thomas Hoving

  Self

• Murray Levi

  Self

• Cesar Pelli

• César Pelli

  Self