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

Rem Koolhaas

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.

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Art Terms

Architecture Architectural drawing Collage Photomontage Cityscape Perspective Drawing

Exhibitions

The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal

1967

Architecture in the New York Area

1952

Modern Architecture for the Modern School

1942

Architecture and Imagery: Four New Buildings

1959