Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York, NY (View of relocated sculpture garden from lower-level gallery)

Rem Koolhaas

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.

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Art Terms

Collage Photomontage Architecture Architectural drawing Contemporary art Avant-garde

Exhibitions

The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal

1967

Architecture in the New York Area

1952

Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings

1959

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942