Africa Modernism at the Center for Architecture (AIANY)
A world away but seriously fascinating is the Africa Modernism show at theCenter for Architecture (AIANY), originally curated by Vitra. In snapshot sized photos, framed and hung like wall art, each building project from the 1960's and 1970's shows how modernist architecture spanned all continents, its fenestrated concrete facades now again in fashion. Also photographed by the now legendary Iwan Baan and Alexia Webster, the exhibition has a francophone feel in that so many of the projects occurred in French Africa. Still, taken as a whole, a wonderful documentation of buildings that often look as if they could be constructed today.