Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Museum of Modern Art Addition
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Preferred Title:
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Museum of Modern Art Addition
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Image View:
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The west block, looking east and into the Sculpture Garden, from an upper floor
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Creator:
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Yoshio Taniguchi (Japanese architect, born 1937)
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Location:
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site: New York, New York, United States
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Location Note:
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11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
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Date:
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1997-2006 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Modernist; Modern
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Work Type 1:
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art museum
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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glass; steel
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Art museums; interior
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Description:
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Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the Museum reopened in midtown Manhattan on November 20, 2004, to coincide with MoMA's seventy-fifth anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot Museum is nearly twice the size of the former facility. Upon its completion in November 2006, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building will mark the culmination of the Taniguchi project. Taniguchi reintroduces The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden as the heart of the Museum by preserving Philip Johnson's original 1953 design. The architect's plan enlarges the garden and re-establishes the southern terrace, which is now an elegant outdoor patio for the Museum's new restaurant. Views of the garden are now available from numerous vantage points throughout the Museum. (Source: MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) [website]; http://www.moma.org/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Two
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Identifier:
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1A1-TY-MOMA-H1
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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