And finally: MoMA

MoMA is sweet. We can all give Yoshio Taniguchi a large round of applause for desiging it's expansion and renovation. According to MoMA.org, Taniguchi's plan for the museum was to incorporate the original pieces of the museum into a unified whole. The renovation greatly increased MoMA's gallery space as well as added a research and education portion to the museum.

A bustling lobby reflects the busy street life of the NYC.

Visual and circulatory connections between the old and new.

Taniguchi punched out sections of wall to allow visitors to get glimpses into other parts of the museum. Not much of the galleries that the punch-outs lead to are revealed, and they all seem to be filled with the same quality of light. This makes the punch-outs feel like ambiguous lanterns cut in to the wall.

Taniguchi continues the idea of punch-outs in to exterior views as well.

roflcopters

The most exciting gallery space, in my not-so-professional opinion, was the industrial design and architecture portion of MoMA.

It incorporated installments from famous architects like Frank Gehry

and Phillip Johnson



to the likes of Evan Roth (UMD what?!) and the Graffiti Research Lab.






This is only a taste of MoMA. It's filled to the bursting point with amazing art and exhibits, but unfortunately that must be saved for some other blog.... well, o.k. here's this stuff...

Dear MoMA,

Thanks for that great night in NYC. We'll have to do it again some time. How does spring break sound?

Yours sincerely,

Me