ABSTRACT
At its meeting of December 8, 1997, the Board of Trustees appointed Yoshio Taniguchi as the architect of an expanded Museum of Modern Art, reconceived to meet the needs of the institution, and its broad public, in the twenty-first century. … As the Museum began examining its future needs, it quickly realized it required not merely new spaces but fundamentally different spaces from its existing ones. Or, put differently, The Museum of Modern Art could not afford to enlarge itself by simply expanding, as it had done in the past; if it wanted to meet the challenges of the future, it had to create a new Museum, one that could provide the kinds of spaces and spatial relationships that would allow it to realize its intellectual and programmatic goals.
