The Upcoming MoMA Exhibition will begin on March 13, 2016 until July 4, 2016. The exhibit will feature game-changing work of Japanese architects.
Curbed states that the Museum of Modern Art in New York will put up an event "focusing on the work of Japanese architects." The list of the famous Japanese architects includes Toyo Ito, Ryue Nishizawa, Kazuyo Sejima, and Sou Fujimoto.
Design Boom says Pedro Gadanho, the director of the Museum Of Art, Architecture, And Technology in Lisbon, is organizing this exhibition. This event is dubbed as "A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond." It will also present an overview of "Ito's 40 year-career and his influence as mentor to an emerging generation of acclaimed Japanese architects such as Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, and Junya Ishigami.
This exhibition will display models, drawings, and images of more than 40 architectural designs. The event will also "highlight the prominence and innovation of contemporary architecture from Japan since the 1990s."
On different news, The Wall Street Journal reports that Museum of Modern Art reveals its revised expansion plans. It says that MoMA has chosen to relinquish the idea of having a retractable glass wall.
Another revision of MoMA's expansion plan is to also give up the floor that "that moves up and down." The new entrance to its sculpture garden has also been dispensed with.
Report also says that "the museum and its architecture firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, have dropped the splashiest elements of the expansion plan they disclosed two years ago." Removing the said elements is the respond to the protest received from architects and preservationists. "Instead, the design now gets to the business of making the museum work better for visitors and curators: more and varied gallery spaces, a less-congested lobby, a faster coat-check line."
The revised plan has an estimated cost of $400 million. This covers the "new construction and soft costs, plus $40 million to $45 million for renovations to the museum's existing structures, set to begin next week."
What do you think of the "A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond" initiated by MoMA? How about the recent renovation plan?
