Architectural Wonders

Posted by Thorbjorn 4 December 2009

Shown here are a series of avantgarde architectural drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection. This very collection consists of 205 artworks from the years 1960s to 1970s and was on November 1, 2000 donated to The Museum of Modern Art. Prolific names such as R. Buckminster Fuller, Ron Herron, Rem Koolhaas, Archigram, Superstudio and Ettore Sottsass are to be found in the collection. Truly mesmerizing!

Superstudio, The Continuous Monument 1969

Yona Friedman, Spatial City Project 1958-59

Rem Koolhass, The City of the Captive Globe, New York, New York, 1972

Rem Koolhass, Welfare Palace Hotel, Roosevelt Island, New York, New York 1976

R. Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion House 1927–29

John Hejduk, Wall House 2 1973–76