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Lightfall - Genealogy of a Museum

  • K. Michael Hays,
  • Sylvia Lavin,
  • Preston Scott Cohen,
  • Wes Jones,
  • Robert Levit

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For architecture, the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts Paul and Herta Amir Building provides a new spatial and tectonic paradigm; for museology, it represents a new approach for resolving tensions between divergent cultural agendas. The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an unusual synthesis of two opposing paradigms of the contemporary museum: the museum of neutral white boxes dedicated to aesthetic contemplation and the museum of architectural spectacle, a site of public excitation. Rather than being concentrated in a grand lobby or atrium, the public spaces of the building are dispersed, becoming sites for artistic interventions. A series of rectangular galleries are organised around the light fall, a twenty-six-meter tall spiraling atrium that organises the building according to multiple axes that deviate significantly from floor to floor. The geometry and organisation of the building stimulates curatorial imagination, proving that architectural and museological space can be simultaneously segregated, contiguous, and synthesised.

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  • Architecture, israel
  • Art museum architecture
  • Museum buildings
  • Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut
  • Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut. Herta and Paul Amir Building
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  • K. Michael Hays

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  • Sylvia Lavin

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  • Preston Scott Cohen

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  • Wes Jones

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  • Robert Levit

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    Skira Editore, Skira

    2015