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Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York, NY (Exterior perspective of Fifty-third street façade)

Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York, NY (Exterior perspective of Fifty-third street façade)

Rem Koolhaas
Dutch, born 1944
1997
A mixed-media collage on paper by Rem Koolhaas proposing a dramatic reimagining of MoMA’s Fifty-third Street façade, using cut photographs, drawing, and textured material to stage an architectural idea as a lived urban moment.
You’re placed inside a car—the dashboard and rearview mirror frame a tilted modernist glass façade punctuated by a shimmering gold plane, while small cutout figures stroll across a flattened, cinematic streetscape.
The piece distills Koolhaas’s approach of treating architecture as spectacle and urban experience, blending drawing, photography, and collage to argue for new ways a museum can be read and experienced within the city.
Medium
Mixed media collage on paper
Dimensions
8 3/4 x 13 1/4" (22.2 x 33.7 cm)
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Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
476.1997.5
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