The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.

WSJ: How Less Became More

Directed by Peter Reed, associate curator of the museum's department of architecture and design, the exhibition celebrates the centennial of Aalto's birth and encompasses a career of more than 50 years.

WSJ: Finnish Master Alvar Aalto | By Ada Louise Huxtable