Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York, NY (View of relocated sculpture garden from lower-level gallery)
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch, born 1944
1997
A collage on paper by architect Rem Koolhaas that stages a conceptual proposal for MoMA’s expansion, using cut paper and photographic fragments to imagine how a lowered gallery would frame a relocated sculpture garden.
The work reads like a small, cinematic stage: stark black and gray planes pierced by tall, metallic columns and a slanted ramp that funnels your eye toward a glass‑like box containing a lone reclining sculpture, producing a sense of theatrical distance and engineered spectacle.
It demonstrates Koolhaas’s late‑20th‑century method of turning architectural ideas into narrative images—using collage to propose provocative spatial relationships and to communicate bold museum concepts for competitions and charrettes.
Medium
Collage on paper
Dimensions
8 1/2 x 14 1/8" (21.6 x 35.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
476.1997.4
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