Lotus 134 (2008)

What are the new museums, how do they work, why are they in certain places and not others, what are the strategies behind their creation? They can be phenomenological, atmospheric, situationist, functionalist, secularized, sublime, etc.

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Francesco Poli
I musei dell'isola della felicità / The Museums of the Island of Happiness

Situazione/Situation
Ateliers Jean Nouvel
Musée Gallo Romain, Périgueux, France
Reina Sofia Museum Extension, Madrid
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris

Aura
Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan
Palazzo Grassi Renovation, Venezia
Punta della Dogana Renovation, Venezia

Fenomenologia/Phenomenology
Steven Holl Architects
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture, Nanjing, China
Herning Center of the Arts, Herning, Denmark

Secolarizzazione/Secularization
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
High Museum Expansion, Atlanta, Georgia
Atelier Brancusi Reconstruction, Paris

Contenitore/Container
Herzog & de Meuron
Schaulager Laurenz Foundation, Basel, Schweiz
de Young Museum, San Francisco
Walker Art Center, Expansion, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Funzionalismo/Functionalism
OMA/AMO
Hermitage Extension, St. Petersburg

Sublimazione/Sublimation
SANAA
Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza
New Museum, New York
Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Toledo, Ohio
Ryue Nishizawa
Museo di Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan

Josep Maria Montaner
Musei del XXI secolo / Museums of the 21st Century