Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York, NY (View of lower-level gallery)
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch, born 1944
1997
A collage on paper by Rem Koolhaas that proposes a lower-level gallery for MoMA, using cut photographic imagery and a painted insert to convey a spatial and atmospheric idea produced for a fast-paced charrette.
A vast, muted gray floor and paperlike ceiling dominate, interrupted by a central painted portrait and two tiny cutout figures, while slanted photographic façades recede into the distance to create a cinematic, oddly empty gallery void.
It exemplifies Koolhaas’s theatrical use of collage to stage architectural concepts—prioritizing narrative, program, and experience in representation—and helped popularize image-driven methods in late-20th-century museum and urban design.
Medium
Collage on paper
Dimensions
11 3/4 x 16 1/2" (29.8 x 41.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
476.1997.12
Palette
Exhibitions
