The Metropolitan Museum of Art?s Costume Institute spring 2016 exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, on view from May 5 through August 14, explores how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear. Manus x Machina features over 170 garments, diverse in their designers, techniques and details. The exhibition is presented in the Robert Lehman Wing, a double-height, octagonal addition on the museum?s central axis constructed in 1975. In order to preserve access to the permanent galleries, the exhibition space is located in the Lehman Wing?s central atrium and corridors. The space posed a number of unique environmental challenges for The Costume Institute?s show: excessive daylighting unconducive to textile exhibition, split levels, a corridor condition lacking dedicated display walls and an eclectic material palette.
© OMA - Albert Vecerka

Architects: OMA

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 10028, United States

Partner In Charge: Shohei Shigematsu

Client: The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Area: 18300.0 ft2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Albert Vecerka, Brett Beyer, Naho Kubota

Associate In Charge: Scott Abrahams

Team: Wesley Ho, N...