다양한 박물관 프로젝트를 모아놓은 서적입니다. 스티븐 홀, 라파엘 모네오, 알바로 시저, 유엔 스튜디오, KPF, 키쇼 구로가와, 다니엘 리베스킨트, 우규승, 아라타 이소자키, 안톤 프레독 등의 작품을 통해 박물관 설계에 대한 이해를 추구하고 있습니다.
Somewhere between the unveiling of Wright's shocking Guggenheim in New York and Gehry's shocking Guggenheim in Bilbao, the museum went from being an "elegant receptacle" for other people's art to a spectacle in and of itself. Consider for a moment the fact that the latter-day Wright's Guggenheim has single-handedly transformed Bilbao from a neglected industrial town into a premier destination for tourists (most of whom don't even bother checking the exhibit schedule before they come), or that supposedly 50 new museums, or major additions to old ones, are currently under construction in the United States alone. Museum-going, once a "veddy, veddy" serious ritual of the upper classes, has become a mass-marketed enjoyment that's not too far removed from pilgrimages to Disneyworld or big, snazzy shopping malls.
Whether or not that's good for art is somewhat beside the point, at least insofar as goes this very handsome view book of 24 of art's most glamorous new envelopes around the world, which features both all-new sites and clever additions or renovations, as well as both "general interest" sites and "specialized" ones like Kohn Pedersen Fox's Rodin Gallery in Seoul, South Korea, and Arata Isozaki's Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. That's not to say, however, that many of these sleekly elegant postmodern receptacles aren't sensitive to the works that they house. Many of them--such as Steven Holl Architects' dazzling Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, José Rafael Moneo's deferential limestone addition to the 1924 Beaux Arts Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and Alvaro Siza's immaculate white-stucco Museu de Serralves in Oporto, Portugal--benefit from cutting-edge design technology that bathes their contents in a wealth of natural light that would be unimaginable in the thickly vaulted great museums of prior centuries. And, from UN Studios' Museum Het Valkhof in the Netherlands--with its exterior of shimmering aquamarine and light-green glass panels--to Thompson and Rose's Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Clearwater, Florida--whose simple, lightweight volumes keep harmonious company with the nearby 60-acre botanical gardens and the Pinellas waterway--this new generation of museums lays out galleries, pavilions, and the like so that artwork will unfold before visitors in conceptual, holistic, and often nonlinear ways--a deliberateness that indicates just how clear a sense each of their designers had of the content for which they were creating a home.
Nonetheless, it's a credit both to this sumptuous volume and the sites that it showcases that by the last page you'll want to pack a bag to go see each of them for real; be it I.M. Pei's Miho Museum of Japanese Art--whose temple-like glass rooftops rise up out of the mountains outside of Kyoto, Japan--or Bruner/Cott's acclaimed, 13-acre Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts--carved with epic ingenuity out of a historic, old brick-mill complex into a sprawling modern-arts laboratory of near-limitless possibility. You'll marvel at the stylistic ingenuity, boldness of form, breathtaking feats of design and craftsmanship... and that's not even to mention that "art stuff" that's scattered around inside. --Timothy Murphy |
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