Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York, NY (View of relocated sculpture garden)

Rem Koolhaas

1997

A mixed‑media collage on paper by architect Rem Koolhaas proposing a redesign of MoMA’s relocated sculpture garden, using cut photographs and color overlays to stage how pavilion, sculptures, water, and visitors might relate.

You’re struck by its theatrical layering—the spindly, Giacometti‑like figure looming on the right, a bronze body slumped by a reflecting pool, a diagonal ramp with small figures, and a warm amber rectangle that peels the indoor crowd into the outdoor scene—so scale and context feel deliberately unsettled.

The collage exemplifies Koolhaas’s method of using montage to make social programs and spatial relationships visible, part of a late‑20th‑century shift toward narrative, media‑driven architectural representation that helped reshape how architects communicate ideas.

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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