Permanence and transformations: Chipperfield in Athens: memory, invention, contradiction, counterfeit
The text analyzes the background and the theoretical implications of the project for the expansion of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (MAN) designed by the architect D. Chipperfield. The genesis and characteristics of the urban context shaping the consolidated city related to the projec...
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Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño | Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ayp.fapyd.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ayp/article/view/441 |
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| Sumario: | The text analyzes the background and the theoretical implications of the project for the expansion of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (MAN) designed by the architect D. Chipperfield. The genesis and characteristics of the urban context shaping the consolidated city related to the project are analyzed. The nineteenth-century urban plan as well as the dynamics and transformations that take place in a context influenced by a constantly changing tourism model are particularly addressed.
Chipperfield's approach to the expansion of the MAN is explored regarding the compositional strategies through which both scale relationships and meaning variations of the context’s features are regulated, i.e., just as they are configured in the contemporary city. These strategies are continuously compared with the Neues Museum in Berlin which has also been designed by D. Chipperfield.
Finally, the text reflects on the role of the contemporary museum as not only a complex organism but also an integral part of the urban fabric by means of strategies which -taking into account the specific Athenian condition- seem to prelude a contextualist minimalism. |
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