Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansion, New York, NY (View of gallery)
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch, born 1944
1997
A collage on paper in which Rem Koolhaas stages a speculative expansion for MoMA, using cut paper, printed textures, and a lone photographic figure to propose cantilevered gallery planes and a central sculptural block.
The composition hits with theatrical perspective: dark, razor‑thin slabs thrust across a warm brown floor toward a dense, Pollock‑like vertical slab, while the tiny human figure makes the space feel at once monumental and precarious.
This drawing exemplifies Koolhaas’s ‘paper architecture,’ using representation as a provocative design tool that helped reshape 1990s debates about museum program, monumentality, and how architecture can choreograph public experience.
Medium
Collage on paper
Dimensions
11 1/2 x 16 1/2" (29.2 x 41.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the architect
Accession
476.1997.15
Palette
Exhibitions
