Charrette Submission for The Museum of Modern Art Expansion 1997, New York (Manhattan), New York, First Phase

Wiel Arets

1997

A mixed-media charrette submission by Wiel Arets proposing a first-phase expansion of The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan that rethinks gallery organization and the building’s relationship to the city.

At first glance the work reads like an architect’s notebook-collage—transparent overlays of plans, sections, and atmospheric washes mix with precise linework and photo fragments to suggest light, circulation, and urban context.

It exemplifies the 1990s use of evocative, iterative drawings and charrettes to argue museum strategy on dense urban sites, shaping debates about how contemporary additions can insert new program into an established modernist fabric.

Art Terms

Architectural drawing Architecture Built environment Design Plan drawing Sketch Contemporary art

Exhibitions

The New City: Architecture and Urban Renewal

1967

Architecture of Museums

1968

Architecture in the New York Area

1952

Inside Spaces

1981