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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
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.
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Imagining the Future is so big because it includes competition schemes but also transcripts of numerous conversations and lectures about the museum expansion: the conversations from “The Pocantico Conference” held in October 1996 and the latter from a lecture series held at MoMA in the months following the conference. The first was private while the second was public, but both are included here, a remarkable instance of a museum revealing what is normally hidden as well as a sign of how seriously and thoroughly it was considering its transformation. Even so, the result, come 2004, was “a beautiful, cool and cerebral monument to modernism,” in Saumarez Smith’s words, but also “too bland, too like a corporate headquarters for modern art.” A similar document does not exist (yet) for the recent DS+R project, but the most interesting aspect of their renovation and expansion is how it had to deal with the phenomenal success of Taniguchi’s project — a success that made MoMA one of the most difficult places to look at and appreciate art.
* Syndicated content from A Daily Dose of Architecture Books.
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