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Plus, plus ça change at the museum of modern art in New York
Author(s) -
Merkel Jayne
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.246
Subject(s) - architecture , art history , modern art , art , selection (genetic algorithm) , visual arts , performance art , computer science , artificial intelligence
The selection of Yoshio Taniguchi, in 1997, to design the Museum of Modern Art's enormous expansion was generally considered conservative, if not outright old‐fashioned. When the museum reopened in November 2004, most critics described the new scheme as ‘contextual’ or ‘subtle’, and noted that the architect had said he had tried ‘to make the architecture go away’. Now that enough time has passed to blur expectations, Jayne Merkel looks at MoMA as it is today. She contends that the choice was progressive in exactly the way the museum has been all along, and that the architecture is very much there. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.