Re: CongressCATH 2004: Philosophy of Architecture/Architecture of Philosophy
2000.10.06 14:11
from the call for papers:
"In particular the conference will examine contemporary architecture (so-called postmodern or deconstructive architecture), which as a practice seems to perform the insights of postmodern theory, and the architecture of the museum and the museum of architecture and the Architectural Archive. Here the conference would like to explore debates around the creation of museum spaces and the relationship between collections, interpretation, meaning and space."
from the back cover of Lotus International 35 (1982):
The museum of architecture
It's no longer possible for a contemporary architect to resolve the complex thematic of the museum in the typological conception of a building. Museum architecture, on deeper investigation, is transformed into a reflection on the museum-making of architecture itself.
We can find the prototypes of this phenomenon in the first collections, in the house-museum, in the first archaeological excavations, limited phenomenon which gradually spread until they became a program of exhibition organization throughout the world with the great exhibitions of the start of the century.
Today, in fact, they look to us as a colossal project of museum-making, even if with the aim of instructing. But the world which is given back to us like a still life in the museums, all of the works, the image, the production of varied ages and places is only a universe of melange, a metaphor of the living world the disorder of which is brought back to mind in the "magnificent chaos of the museum."
[The entire issue of Lotus International 35 is devoted to "the museum of architecture" theme.]
definition of quondam
seeking precedents... ...finding inspiration the inaugural exhibition of Quondam - A Virtual Museum of Architecture
20 March 1997 - 21 September 1997 where 15 historical precedents for a virtual museum of architecture were displayed along with the inspiration that each precedent evoked.
A Museum of Architecture for Venice
5th year studio project
Temple University Fall 1980
Virtual Museum ongoing project at Museumpeace
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