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moma the museum of modern art new york

the museum oF modern
art to eXhiBit Visionary

draWings that record
a PiVotal moment in the
history oF architecture

the ChanGinG Of the
avantGarDe:
VISIONARy ARCHITECTuRAL
DRAWINGS From the hoWard

gilman collection Will Be
on VieW at moma Qns

octoBer 24, 2002, - january 6, 2003

To celebrate the Howard Gilman Foundation’s generous
gift of 205 visionary architectural drawings to The
Museum of Modem Art in November 2000, a selection
of 173 will be presented in this exhibition. The Howard
Oilman Collection, one of the foremost collections of
visionary architectural drawings in the world, focuses on
radical projects from the 1960s and 1970s and includes
some of the most famous utopian drawings of the 20th
century, such as Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House
project (1927) and Ron Herron’s spectacular Cities-
Moving (1966). In addition to the Oilman Collection aldo rossi and gianni Braghieri
works, 16 related drawings from the Museum’s CEMENTERy OF SAN CATALDO, MODENA, ITALy.
Architectural Drawings collection will be on view. Among 1971-84. AERIAL PERSPECTIVE (1971): CRAyON AND GRAPHIC
the many architects whose work will be featured are ON SEPIA DIAZOTyPE, 24 x 49¾ IN (61 x 126,4 CM). GIFT OF
Raimund Abraham, Archigram, Arata lsozaki, Rem THE HOWARD GILMAN FOuNDATION. ©2002 THE MuSEuM OF
Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Gaetano Pesce, Cedric Price, Aldo MODERN ART, NEW yORK
Rossi, and Ettore Sottsass.
massimo scolari, aldo melamPo
Th Howard Oilman Collection was assembled in just PROJECT, 1975. OBLIquE PROJECTION: COLOR INK,
a few years -between 1976 and 1980-a period that WATERCOLOR AND GRAPHITE ON BOARD, 11½ x 10 IN /
coincided with one of the greatest bursts of creative 30,2 x 25, 4 CM. GIFT OF HOWARD GILMAN FOuNDATION.
energy ever recorded on paper by architects, comprising PHOTO: JON CROSS AND ERICA STATON, DIGITAL COLLECTION
nothing less than the last rally of the heroic visions of PROJECT, LuNA IMAGING. DIGITAL IMAGE © 2002 THE
prewar modernism and the very first lights of what would MuSEuM OF MODERN ART, NEW yORK
broadly be known as postmodemism. As a whole, the
collection is not only unique, but is also a remarkably
complete cross section of that period’s rapidly changing
currents in the world of architecture.

The acquisition of this collection prompted the creation of
The Howard Oilman Archive within the Department of
Architecture and Design. The archive not only provides a
rare and comprehensive view of a significant moment in
history but also a fundamental documentation of the root
sources of our architecture today.

Terence Riley, Chief Curator,
Department of Architecture and Design

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