The work of Andrés Jaque, dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), is featured in the permanent collection display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This long-term exhibition, centrally installed off the museum’s atrium, is a tremendous recognition reserved for a small number of architects, especially contemporary ones.
Dean Jaque’s architectural project on view at MoMA is Reggio School in Madrid, Spain, which was completed in 2022. The school is represented through a large-scale model, photographs, digital drawings, and handmade sketches by Jaque that are now part of the museum’s permanent collection. The work is shown in conversation with that of a small group of other architects from around the world, who are all redefining contemporary practice and establishing new approaches to architecture by reimagining relationships with the natural world and plant and animal life. Under the title, Down to Earth, this installation specifically highlights projects such as Jaque’s Reggio School for their connections to nature, and the relationships they establish with other species and plant life, particularly in the context of climate change and the urgent need for new design paradigms.