There is a great show up at MOMA right now called “Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s.” It makes a nice counterpoint to their bigger show “Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling” which runs concurrently. While “Home Delivery” focuses on the history of the prefabricated house, showcasing architects’ remarkable ingenuity in tackling the problem of how to build relatively inexpensive and easy to construct shelters, “Dreamland,” focuses on a more playful and theoretical approach to architecture.
The show seems to take its as its starting point Rem Koolhaas’s 1977 book “Delirious New York.”
(The cover image is by his wife.)
There were some very beautiful drawings he did in collaboration with other architects. They stuck me as looking very modern, and as looking more like works of art than architectural renderings.
Rem Koolhaas. (Dutch, born 1944), Richard Perlmutter. (American), Derick Snare. (American, born 1952) and Madelon Vriesendorp. (Dutch, born 1945).
Welfare Palace Hotel Project, Roosevelt Island, New York, New York
(I love the Géricault-esque raft at the bottom.)
Elia Zengheli and Zoe Zenghelis.
Hotel Sphinx Project, New York, New York
These two images
were also included in “Delirious
New York.”
The show is up till March 2, 2009.
