The New York Five

The New York Five are a group of five New York architects whose work was the subject of a 1969 meeting of the CASE (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment ) and a corresponding exhibition (MoMA ) Museum of Modern Art in New York. The group consists of the now very famous architect Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk and Richard Meier. After the title of the publication accompanying it were "Five Architects" or " The New York Five ," in allusion to the white facades of buildings called by the press simply " The Whites ".

The architects understood their designs as a critique of the architecture of the 1960s and were based on the works of Le Corbusier in the 1920s and 1930s and De Stijl, but also in the Italian Rationalism, about Giuseppe Terragni. The group was an informal network members continue to operate independently of its architectural firms.