Sanaa: Sejima & Nishizawa / New Museum, New York - Couverture souple

SEJIMA, KAZUYO

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8434312441 ISBN 13 : 9788434312449

Editeur : Ediciones Poligrafa, 2011

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The New Museum, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA (2010 Pritzker Prize), is the first art museum ever constructed from the ground up in downtown Manhattan,as well as an architectural contribution to NewYork’s urban landscape. Sejima and Nishizawa, who received the commission in 2002, have described the building as their response to the history and powerful personalities of both the New Museum and its site. “The Bowery was very gritty when we first visited it,” they have said.“We were a bit shocked, but we were also impressed that a contemporary art museum wanted to be there.” As visitors approach the Bowery, they encounter the building as a dramatic stack of seven rectangular boxes.This distinctive form derives directly from the architects’ defining solution to fundamental challenges of the site: A dense and ambitious program, including the need for open, flexible gallery spaces of different heights and atmospheres. The New Museum is clad in a seamless, anodized expanded aluminum mesh chosen by SANAA to emphasize the volumes of the boxes while dressing the whole of the building with a delicate, filmy, softly shimmering skin.With windows just visible behind this porous scrim-like surface, the building appears as a single, coherent, and even heroic form that is nevertheless mutable, dynamic, and animated by the changing light of day—an appropriate visual metaphor for the openness of the New Museum and the ever-changing nature of contemporary art.

Revue de presse :

El New Museum, diseñado por los arquitectos Kazuyo Sejima y Ryue Nishizawa, es el primer museo de arte construido desde cero en el centro de Manhattan, así como una contribución arquitectónica al paisaje urbano de Nueva York.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ediciones Poligrafa
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8434312441
• ISBN 13: 9788434312449
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80