I was pleased to see the Whitney before it goes downtown into a building by the Highline, while the original Marcel Breuer building is transferred, at least temporarily, to the Met. The building is such a muscular and intense piece of brutalism, if such a description is appropriate to the work of one of the high priests of Bauhaus modernism:
By special request, I am including an additional photograph of the entrance façade which is more legible:
This is the north façade:
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Welcome back to the USA. I hope you are enjoying your visit to NYC. Brutalism is a good word to describe the Whitney, both inside and outside, but I think posting the picture in a landscape format would provide a more accurate view for your readers who may not be familiar with the museum. I’ve seen the building more times than I can count, and had to check online to determine what angle you captured.
I can’t help but wonder what you would say about the archetecture of the new Barnes Museum in my neighborhood in Philadelphia.
All the best,
Jocelyn
Yes, but I wanted to give a sense of the quality of its abstraction which I hoped the photo did (it’s taken from below the entrance front in the street corner of the courtyard).