Dear MoMA, Couldn't the Nouvel Tower Save the American Folk Art Museum?

In this Metropolis Magazine post on MoMA's planned demolition of the American Folk Art Museum, Karrie Jacobs asks a strangely unasked question: How has the Nouvel Tower - in its day the most controversial of MoMA's expansion plans - not been brought into the debate? The Jean Nouvel-designed tower was predicated up a circulation plan that, by necessity, ignored the (then occupied) Folk Art Museum entirely. Why is this plan no longer possible? Read the fascinating argument here.

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Cite: Rory Stott. "Dear MoMA, Couldn't the Nouvel Tower Save the American Folk Art Museum?" 23 Feb 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/479740/dear-moma-couldn-t-the-nouvel-tower-save-the-american-folk-art-museum> ISSN 0719-8884

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