Imagining the Future of the Museum of Modern Art
Imagining the Future of the Museum of Modern Art (Studies in Modern Art 7)
John Elderfield (Series Editor)
Museum of Modern Art, 1998
Paperback | 8-1/2 x 10 inches | 304 pages | English | ISBN: 9780870700569 | $35.00
PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
This illustrated volume documents the entire expansion planning process including the architects' proposals, and transcripts of the various speeches, debates, and forums concerning the two-year effort to select an architect for the expansion of the Museum.
Presented in this volume are the charette submissions, or design exercises, of the ten initial architects, as well as the competition proposals from the three finalists-Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Yoshio Taniguchi, and Bernard Tschumi. After an extensive review of these proposals, the commission was awarded to Taniguchi, a model of whose design appears on the cover of this publication. 48 color and 256 b/w illustrations. John Elderfield is Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer at the Princeton University Art Museum; and Consultant for Special Projects at Gagosian Gallery.
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Charles Saumarez Smith's recently published The Art Museum in Modern Times, which I reviewed a couple days ago, features short case studies of around forty art museums around the world, starting with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1939 and exte...
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