MoMA reveals its humanitarian credentials with a show of problem solvers

摘要

I can't help but wonder what Philip Johnson might have thought of Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement, the exhibition of humanitarian design that opened last month at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Johnson, the founding director of the museum's architecture department, had scant interest in what he called 'do-gooder' architecture. However, he was the first to latch onto whatever was fashionable in the field, and today design for social change is undeniably au courant.