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Architecture vs. Art - The aesthetics of art museum design (Architecture…
Architecture vs. Art - The aesthetics of art museum design
Architecture as an art form
Large-scale sculptures
Architecture vs . Buildings
"A bicycle shed's a building" - Nicholas Persuer
"Mixed Art" - function & form
Form Follows Function
Form & Function should complement each other
Symbolic Function
Spiritual Function
Aesthetic Function
Conceptual art form
Art > architecture
Famed Collections don't need extravagant design "Guggenheim-effect"
Give space for the art work
"Disappear" - MoMA
Allow viewers to concentrate their attention to art pieces
Overpowering architecture eats the art experience
Architecture > art
"Contemporary art demands extraordinary spaces"
Oddly shaped spaces to challenge artists
Becomes an attraction itself
Guggenheim Bilbao
Modest collections advantage of the interesting building
Plane white halls kill the art as well as hyperactive spaces
Symbolism
Knowledge
Meaning
Visionary buildings by artists
Inspirational
Strong enough to compensate possible functional weaknesses
"What ideas/feelings are expressed?"
More freedom for the architects
Museum experience
Inside/Outside should reflect each other
Façade's the first thing you see
We form a character from Interaction of:
Shape
Colors
Surfaces
Lines
Light
Interior's sensed with all the senses
Reception sets the stage for the experience
Other functions
Restaurants, cafés, event spaces, shops,
Luring the attention from the art pieces
Serving the needs e.g. toilets, accessibility,
Balance
Modifying design with the artist
Romantic Idea - Sovereignty of art doesn't translate to architecture
Pulitzer Arts Foundation (& Ando)
"Deferential and not competing with the art pieces"
E.g. Disney Concert Hall LA
Museum types
New museums with changing collection / exhibitions
More freedom for the architects
Flexible design
Site specific installations
New museums with permanent collection
Design to complement the art pieces
Museum Additions
Match, connect with the existing building and collection
