It provides a demonstration of the artistic, functional, and cultural richness of vernacular architecture.

In 1931 he completed his dissertation on vernacular concrete architecture on the Greek Cyclades islands.

After having curated the highly controversial NYC MoMA-show Are Clothes Modern?, an exhibition where Rudofsky argued that clothing lacked utility, and - due to its highly artificial nature - even had harming effects on the human body,[2] Rudofsky developed the exhibition Architecture Without Architects, which ran at MoMA from 11 November 1964 to 7 February 1965.

[4] Shown without texts or explanations, the visitors were just confronted with imagery that showed indigenous building traditions, which were very much at odds with the ideas of architectural modernism which had been promoted through NYC MoMA's Philip Johnson in his famous 1932 exhibition "Modern Architecture.

Although the show was heavily criticised, it became one of the most successful exhibitions in the history of the NYC MoMA.