New Museum Readies Rem Koolhaas Exhibition

Say it with us now: “Cronocaos.” This vaguely Flinstonian term is in fact a Koolhaas-ism and the subject of an exhibition by the architect and his firm, the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), that will open May 7 at the New Museum. Visitors will get an OMA’s-eye-view of architectural and urban preservation. “Through our respect for the past, heritage is becoming more and more the dominant metaphor for our lives today—a situation we call Cronocaos,” says Rem Koolhaas, who first presented the exhibition at the 2010 Venice Biennale.