MAXXI Joins Young Architects MoMA Program
25/12/2010.
Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
metalocus, PEDRO NAVARRO
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 have added a third partner to their jointly run annual Young Architects Program. The two museums will collaborate with MAXXI, the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome, in this year’s competition to transform the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, for the summer. There will also be a separate installation at MAXXI in Rome.
MAXXI
There are two juries, one in New York and one in Rome, and curatorial representatives from each organization sit on both and will choose the winning architects in February. MAXXI’s finalists include three Italian firms — Raffaella De Simone and Valentina Mandalari of Palermo, Ghigos Ideas of Lissone and and stARTT of Rome. The others are Asif Khan of London and Langarita Navarro Arquitectos of Madrid (Maria Langarita y Victor Navarro).
The MoMA/MoMA PS1 finalists include three Brooklyn firms — Interboro Partners, Matter Architecture Practice and FormlessFinder (also of New Haven). The other two are MASS Design Group in Boston and IJP Corporation Architects in London and Cambridge, Mass.
