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

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

Rem Koolhaas
Dutch, born 1944
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.
Medium
Mixed media collage on paper
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 16 1/2" (29.8 x 41.9 cm)
Classification
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
476.1997.10
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