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Under a brown and white tent in the museum's statue-populated backyard is a collection of 115 pieces of sports equipment, a glistening trove of varnished wood, polished steel and glowing leather. All the objects were selected by the museum's Arthur Drexler, who believes that function and designer's taste combine to make a piece of sports equipment modern art. After the objects were selected, the editors of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED approved their performance qualities...
...colleagues are apt to wax rhapsodic over him. "He is the Leonardo of our time," says Michigan's Eero Saarinen. "He has provided enough for a whole generation to live on," says Walter Gropius. "The world's greatest architect," says Brazil's Oscar Niemeyer. Adds Arthur Drexler, director of the Department of Architecture and Design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art: "I go through phases in my thoughts about his work. In these, I sit back and think Corbu is even greater than I thought...
Unlike Leonardo and Piranesi, contemporary architects are not inhibited by technological restrictions. Even their most outrageous architectural fantasies are usually technically possible. But for them, the question of what to build has taken precedence over problems of how to build. Says Arthur Drexler, director of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art: "Social usage determines what is visionary and what is not. Visionary projects cast their shadows over into the real world of experience, expense and frustration. If we could learn what they have to teach, we might exchange irrelevant rationalizations for more useful critical standards. Vision...
...museum's collection, said Design Department Director Arthur Drexler, "includes very few of those mass-produced objects supposed to be characteristic o; our 'high standard of living.' There are no television sets, no refrigerators, no telephones, not because such objects are intrinsically unworthy but rather because their design seldom rises above the vulgarity of today's high-pressure salesmanship...
...line of development taken by contemporary architecture, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art this winter staged a two-month-long exhibit of his work (see color page), discovered that it had a popular, stimulating and controversial show. Said the museum's director of architecture and design, Arthur Drexler: "Gaudi's preoccupation with organic forms, his enthusiasm for texture, and the alarming Hansel-and-Gretel atmosphere his buildings occasionally produce, are today inevitably seen against the background of psychoanalysis as well as the history of architecture . . . Gaudi is not an architect to be imitated. But once lured into...