Modern Art
Contemporary artistic movements, practices, and the spaces designed to exhibit and experience modern art.
Modern art encompasses the artistic innovations and movements that emerged from the late 19th century onward, challenging traditional aesthetics and exploring new forms of expression. Designers and architects engage with modern art through both creating work within these movements and designing environments that support artistic practice and exhibition.
The community explores how galleries and museums function as public spaces, how historical art movements like the Soviet avant-garde shaped visual culture, and how contemporary architecture creates settings for art display—from adaptive reuse of industrial buildings to purpose-built pavilions and gallery complexes.
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studioMDA Resurrects a Cast-Iron Tribeca Warehouse as Marian Goodman's New Gallery
An 1875 industrial building on Broadway gets a careful renovation that foregrounds original brick, iron, and archways for contemporary art.
SANAA Steps a Cluster of Glass and Limestone Pavilions Down a Sydney Hillside Toward the Harbour
The Sydney Modern Museum transforms the Art Gallery of New South Wales with 40,000 square metres of galleries, tanks, and terraces above wartime ruins.
Morphosis Lifts a Landscaped Plaza Over 25,000 Square Feet of Gallery Space in Costa Mesa
The new Orange County Museum of Art rethinks the inward-facing institution with a 10,000-square-foot rooftop terrace and terracotta skin.
FELT Architecture and Oskar Architecten Frame a Chapel with an L-Shaped Arts Campus in Asse
Kunst-As stitches together a fragmented Belgian town center with raw concrete, pastel tiles, and generous spaces for creative work.
