Created By: Matt Postal
Various architects built MoMA, including the Argentine-born Cesar Pelli, who designed the 1984 expansion, incorporating a residential tower. Though Pelli did not embrace the kinds of classical quotations favored by many of his contemporaries, he did produce a blue grey and white skin that acknowledged the past, particularly the colored grids and abstract geometries of the early 20th century DeStijl movement in the Netherlands.
This point of interest is part of the tour: Post-Modern Manhattan: West 50s + 60s
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