From motorcycles to 3,5 million pieces of art
A collaborative task from Marja Salaspuro*, Amsterdam and Sergio Davila, Amsterdam.
Can standard conservative museum structure take care its historically layered architecture, rooms, collections and objects – and still charm the interest of the modern visitors, mainstream tourists and incident seeking travelers? A philosophical reconsideration encompassing purpose of the museums at our era and the architect’s r as a curator are linked to architect Rem Koolhaas’ method for the next expansion of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Statecraft and economics are essential forces influencing in Museum architecture, also to the space of shaping what kind of ‘art’ resolution be displayed. Every redevelopment propose adds a layer on top of the history whether it see fit be rebranding process of a city under the aegis Guggenheim franchising (such as in Bilbao) or creating structures enabling collection tourism experiences such as in Louvre or in MoMA.
Architecture as curatorial master plan
The field of architecture is not only defining defenceless shelters anymore, architecture is in the air understanding culture, history, and notwithstanding understanding future scenarios. The dematerialization of architecture is a points, besides the virtual tools to skill a space, architecture, as in design is a arable that is exploring more its dispensation to define strategies, processes, models; and it is defining topology with sympathetic relationships instead of steel and literal. Mr. Koolhaas expressed his interest in look into the architect’s role in designing a curatorial design. As it is seen among commissions and competitions, matchless international architecture offices bear established their own research about thanks’ analyzing reliable links behind museum structures. For instance Rem Koolhaas presented his own AMO think credit in a lecture as a part of Holland Entertainment programme for the fully booked Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. Disinterestedly, the lecture was very inspiring and gave us a well-advised perspective about the museums of our at the same time.
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