Building Collections: Recent Acquisitions of Architecture May 23, 2011

Presenting a selection of models and drawings acquired by the Department of Architecture and Design since 2005 -- the vast majority on view for the first time -- 'Building Collections' underscores the rationale and motives of collecting architecture at MoMA. The exhibition is organized around several themes, including ornament and abstraction, modernist urbanism and utopias, Latin American modernism, the revival of Berlin architecture since reunification and the role of process in architecture since the digital revolution.