Architecture: The Changing of the Avant-Garde

MoMA presents a history of modern utopian and visionary architecture, using architectural drawings from the late 1950s to the 1970s donated to the museum by the Howard Gilman Foundation. The main menu is divided into Megastructures (larger, public buildings and complexes) and Postmodern Roots (smaller buildings, retail spaces and houses). Each project consists of two to four drawings and explanatory text. Highlights include ideas by Superstudio, a group of five Italian architects who, in the 1960s, created a set of purely theoretical drawings that impose gigantic, white, grid-patterned structures on natural landscapes such as rivers, ocean coastlines, and the Alps. Postmodern Roots in the 1960s has drawings of projects by Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, James Stirling, Rem Koolhaas, and others. <http://www.moma.org/gilman/main.html>