There is a bonus feature to a new museum show about engineers and architects inventive use of powerful computers and modeling technology to design extraordinarily tall structures: a landmark Website that allows anyone interested to see the show without travelling.
Tall Buildings, at New Yorks Museum of Modern Art through Sept. 27, uses models and text to showcase innovations in skyscraper design through profiles of 25 built and unbuilt projects. The Website created to support the show goes several steps further at www.moma.org/exhibitions/2004/tallbuildings. "We didnt want to regurgitate the same information in the exhibition and catalog," says Tina di Carlo, assistant curator. "So many times, Websites are simply a rephrasing of whats on the wall."