| CENCREM (Cuba) Newsletter - Heritage &
Development No. 19 Special edition
Set in the old Convent of Santa Clara of Asis, in Old Havana –and
ascribed to the National Council for Cultural Heritage, belonging
to the Cuban Ministry of Culture- CENCREM has been since its foundation,
on October 23rd, 1980, on charge of the activities of preservation
and rescue of heritage from the scale of cultural goods, buildings,
historical sites and centers and cultural landscapes; and also on
charge of preserving what is known as living heritage, for which
it is developed a group of interdisciplinary actions involving research,
projects assessments and works referred to the selected exponents
in order to preserve as much as possible, and at the lowest level
of aggression, by using clean technologies that do not waste the
natural resources and at the same time protect the environment.
CENCREM is also the rector institution for staff training and capacity
building of the Cuban System for Cultural Heritage.
More information in Spanish:
http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/CENCREM_No19.pdf
(in Italian) La cultura gratis è più bella
Gratis è bello. Soprattutto quando si tratta di arte e cultura.
Se infatti la gratuità della cultura è da anni fulcro
di dibattiti e bagarre che riguardano strategie politico-economiche
sulla sua gestione e fruizione, molte sono le iniziative promosse
dal Ministero afferente e da altre istituzioni pubbliche o private
che sperimentano le porte aperte dell’arte e della cultura.
Avvicinare l’arte, l’architettura e, in generale, la
cultura, anche a fasce di popolazione che abitualmente non frequentano
spazi culturali, rimane infatti l’obiettivo principale di
coloro i quali amministrano tali luoghi e da essi tentano di ricavare
le risorse finanziarie necessarie alla loro tutela e valorizzazione.
More information:
http://www.tafter.it/2010/09/22/la-cultura-gratis-e-piu-bella/
(in Italian) Museo Martini di Storia dell’Enologia
e Mondo Martini (Italia)
Intervista a Cristiana Fanciotto – pr della Martini &
Rossi
Quando è nato il Museo Martini e quali sono state le
tappe salienti della sua storia?
Il Museo Martini di Storia dell’enologia è stato inaugurato
nel 1961. Nato dalla volontà di Lando Rossi di Montelera,
è una delle più importanti collezioni di storia dell’enologia
al mondo, con testimonianze che ripercorrono la storia del vino
dal settimo secolo a.C. fino ai giorni nostri. Ad ospitare le 16
sale espositive sono le cantine ottocentesche dei primi stabilimenti
Martini & Rossi, dove sono esposti più di 600 reperti
provenienti dall’archeologia classica e da quella industriale:
anfore, vasi coppe, bicchieri e vetri dall’Antico Egitto alla
Grecia e a Roma, nonché torchi e strumenti per la produzione
del vino, argenti e cristalli a partire dal ‘700 fino ad oggi.
More information:
http://www.tafter.it/2010/09/15/museo-martini-di-storia-dell%E2%80%99enologia-e-mondo-martini-galleria-permanente-e-museo-d%E2%80%99impresa/
Opening of the Museum of Catalan Modernista Art
Barcelona's first museum devoted exclusively to Modernisme
opened on 19 March 2010. Containing works by leading Catalan artists,
it is housed in a Modernista building at Carrer Balmes 48, designed
by architect Enric Sagnier. The museum is the result of a private
initiative by art collectors and gallery owners Fernando Pinós
and Maria Guirao, who have assembled in an area of 1,000 square
metres a total of 350 works in the fields of painting, sculpture
and the decorative arts. The 42 artists represented include Gaudí,
Busquets, Llimona, Arnau, Casas, Renart, Rusinol, Gargallo and Anglada
Camarassa.
More information:
http://mmcat.cat/
ICCROM Archives: preserving digital records
On 1 September ICCROM hosted a meeting with InterPARES 3 Team Italy
regarding the preservation of digital records.
Since 1999, the InterPARES 3 Project (International Research on
Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) has been developing
standards, policies and strategies for the long-term preservation
of authentic digital records. ICCROM has been an InterPARES 3 case
study since 2008, collaborating on a project designing and implementing
a management system for organizational use. Through this endeavour,
InterPARES 3 Team Italy is providing advice and applying their research
in order to organize ICCROM’s active records into a system
that is both reliable and compliant with archival principles.
During the meeting, various InterPARES 3 Team Italy case studies
were discussed, as well as research projects on the preservation
of e-mails and registration systems.
More information:
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2010_en/events_en/09_14meetingInterPARES_en.shtml
The Porsche 917 brought back to life by the Heritage Foundation
(France)
This 8th of June, on the eve of the of the races of the 2010 edition
at 12.00 pm in Le Mans, the mystic Porsche 917 has returned to the
famous circuit in what is an exceptional demonstration skilfully
performed by the pilot Gérard Larrousse.
The car, presented in the Saloon of Genève in 1969, is the
fastest car ever manufactured by the German make, with a speed of
388 km/h in the famous line of Hunaudières.
Displayed in the automobile museum of the Sarthe and in various
exhibitions on other occasions, the venerable and legendary Porsche
917 LH (chassis 045) clearly deserved a restoration.
After 40 years of rest, the Porsche 917 roars back again.
A “renaissance” made possible by the actions of the
Heritage Foundation, in the framework of the fructiferous association
with Motul at the service of conservation and valorisation of automobile
heritage.
More information in French:
http://www.fondation-patrimoine.net/fr/actualite.php4?id=146
Course list 2010-2011 - International Academic Projects
(IAP)
International Academic Projects Ltd (IAP) was formed in London in
1989 as an international educational charity whose aims are to help
promote education, training and research into conservation, archaeology,
anthropology and other related fields. IAP was initially based at
the Institute of Archaeology, but since 1998 has been operated from
a larger location at 6 Fitzroy Square, London.
Professional development courses are offered throughout the year
in Britain and abroad. The majority of the courses take place in
Britain and Europe from June through August. We offer an annual
series of short courses (typically between 3 and 5 days in duration)
in conservation, museum studies and archaeology. The courses, led
by international experts, often address very particular types of
knowledge or skills. For a full programme, please contact IAP.
IAP also co-operates with institutions and colleagues abroad to
provide training courses for museum, conservation and archaeological
personnel. Courses outside of the UK have been held in Sri Lanka,
the Philippines, Australia, the USA, Austria, Denmark, Greece, Hungary,
Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Ireland and Finland.
More information:
http://www.academicprojects.co.uk/course-list.php
Publication of “The Red List”: of
those cultural goods under threat
The International Board of Museums (ICOM) made its “Red
List” of those cultural goods of Central America and
Mexico under threat” public on the 28th in Costa Rica. The
publication is aimed at museums, art dealers, the police and customs
officers so aid in the awareness of those objects being illegally
traded with the aim of giving greater protection for the cultural
goods in the region.
More information in Spanish:
http://www.unesco.org/es/sanjose/dynamic-content-single-view/news/present_red_list_of_endangered_cultural_assets/
Magazine: Opening of the new rooms devoted to Classical
Greek and Hellenistic art
On 7 July, after extensive restructuring, the Musée du Louvre
opened its new rooms devoted to Classical Greek and Hellenistic
art (450–30 BCE).
More information:
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/dossiers/liste_magazines.jsp?bmLocale=en
Museum of WORLD WAR II in Gdansk Competition proposal
/ Brochet Lajus Pueyo (Poland)
Last week, we featured the winner of the Museum of the Second World
War Competition in Gdansk, Poland. The project was designed by Studio
Architektoniczne Kwadrat. Now, French architects Brochet Lajus Pueyo
shared with us their proposal for the competition, designed with
associates architects Alice Wijnen & R-architecture.
Obligation of remembrance, desire of remembrance, memorial monument…
The intention of the city of Gdansk to build on the exact confluence
of both the canal Radunia and the river Motlawa the Museum of the
Second World War shows its desire for recognition of its twentieth
century history. It is truly the understanding and recognition of
these patrimonial injuries that are part of its heritage that are
the foundations of this new part of the city: a space and time warp
for the visitor.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/77342/museum-of-wwii-in-gdansk-competition-proposal-brochet-lajus-pueyo/
OMA wins competition for new BMVR (Bibliothèque
Multimédia à Vocation Régionale) library in
Caen, France
A few weeks ago we were discussing on Twitter how OMA has
developed several innovations in cultural and educational buildings.
The Wyly Theater (in partnership with REX), the Seattle Public Library,
and on projects such as the MNBAQ extension or the West Kowloon
Cultural District master plan.
Today we got the news that OMA has won the competition for a new
regional library (Bibliothèque Multimédia à
Vocation Régionale) in Caen, France. The 12,000m2 project
will be OMA’s first cultural building in France, and was led
by associate-in-charge Clément Blanchet.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/77424/oma-wins-competition-for-new-bmvr-library-in-caen-france/
Pannonhalma Abdij Visitor Centre of the Benedictine Monastery
of Pannonhalma / Roeleveld Sikkes (Hungary)
The recent opening of the brand new visitors centre at the renowned
Pannonhalma Benedictine monastery introduces a contemporary addition
to one of Hungary’s most prominent landmarks of cultural heritage.
The addition symbolizes the confidence in the future for a cultural
legacy in Hungary.
The competition winning design of RS | Roeleveld-Sikkes Architects
based in Budapest and The Hague, emphasizes on improving the union
between the various buildings of the monastery. The Pannonhalma
monastery has been a beacon for culture and crafts for over a thousand
years. The monastery grounds of the Benedictine order house the
finest examples of religious art, crafts and architecture. It has
been inscribed into the Unesco World Heritage List in 1996. Today
the monastery is still in use and can be regarded as one of the
key touristic features of Hungary, attracting tens of thousands
of visitors each year.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/76614/pannonhalma-abdij-visitor-centre-roeleveld-sikkes/
Jasper Place Branch Library / HCMA. Edmonton, Canada
The new Jasper Place Library design encompasses the Edmonton Public
Library’s aspirations to create a flexible, open and memorable
presence in the community. The design satisfies the following aims:
A welcoming space that acts as an inclusive designation for all
demographics of the community; a distinctive building that announces
its unique role in the neighborhood as a place for public use; and
a sustainable building that will fulfill present and future library
needs.
With an eye to a potentially bookless future, this iconic, 15,000
sq ft library is focused more on social spaces than on books. The
ground floor is occupied by staff functions as well as a double-height
reading room consisting of book stacks and reading areas. This public
area extends above the staff area to a mezzanine level overlooking
the central space. Stairs–some of which are designed to double
as reading spaces or an amphitheatre—are located at each end
of the mezzanine to form a continuous circulation loop for patrons.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/76852/jasper-place-branch-library-hcma/
Architecture Museum - School of Art, Architecture and Design
at the University of South Australia
The Architecture Museum within the School of Art, Architecture and
Design at the University of South Australia is a facility for the
acquisition, preservation and management of South Australian produced
architectural and related records. The Museum promotes intellectual
enquiry into and produces scholarly information about South Australia's
built heritage.
More information:
http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/architecturemuseum/default.asp
The Louvre Museum sings the Chart of Sustainable Development.
Paris (France)
The Louvre Museum signed on September 2nd 2010 the Chart of sustainable
Development of public institutions and enterprises. This chart,
which is part of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development
(BNDS), aims to encourage public institutions and enterprises to
incorporate the sustainability requisites to their actions and good
running.
More information in French:
http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Le-Musee-du-Louvre-signe-la-charte.html
Deportation Memorial / Studio Kuadra. Borgo San Dalmazzo,
Cuneo (Italy)
Between September 1943 and February 1944 in Borgo San Dalmazzo,
a concentration camp was established in the ex-barracks of the Alpini,
to detain the Jews that had been taken prisoner near Cuneo. The
majority of them were foreigners. (Polish, Austrian, Turkish, Romanian,
Slovenian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Croatian, German, Greek and French).
They had fled from all over Europe into the Alpine Valleys where
they found refuge until they were captured by the Nazis and taken
to the camp.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/76177/jewish-deportation-memorial-studio-kuadra/
“Il mondo che non vedo” exhibition at the Museo
di Roma in Trastevere
An exhibition at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere dedicated to the
theme of industrial archeology and of the abandoned and degraded
sites of our cities will open September 8 till September 26. A conference
will delve into the topic of abandoned areas and the general change
of the idea of city, an urban transformation that opens up new possibilities
and ideas from an architectural point of view.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/76356/il-mondo-che-non-vedo-exhibition-at-the-museo-di-roma-in-trastevere/
Slovenian Alpine Museum (MAS)
The Slovenian Alpine Museum is open. We would like to invite you
to have a look at the permanent exhibition, the introductory movie
about Slovene mountains and the painting exhibition Vrata 2010.
A rich movie- and photomaterial, exhibited objects and interactive
contents are presented in 11 theme groups.
We experience the Museum story through our own climb up the mountain.
The story we feel, carries an important message: The way is more
important than the destination.
More information:
http://www.planinskimuzej.si/?lang=en
NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM (NHM) - Woolly mammoth extinction
due to climate change. United Kingdom
Woolly mammoths died out because climate change caused a massive
decline in their grassland habitat, scientists reported last week.
Warming temperatures and the spread of forests after the last
ice age 21,000 years ago, turned the mammoths’ grassland into
less productive tundra-like habitat.
This reduced the food available to large mammals like the woolly
mammoth, woolly rhino and cave lion and eventually led to their
extinction, the team led by scientists at Durham University, and
Lund University and Bristol University, says.
More information:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2010/august/woolly-mammoth-extinction-due-to-climate-change78775.html
NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM (NHM) - Oldest tool use and meat-eating
revealed. United Kingdom
Ancient human relatives (hominins) used stone tools
to help them eat animals more than 3 million years ago, scientists
report in the journal Nature today.
Fossilised animal bones with stone-tool-inflicted marks on them
were uncovered in Ethiopia by an international team, led by Shannon
McPherron at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, Germany.
The find is the oldest evidence of stone tool use found so far.
The fossils date to about 3.4 million years ago, 800,000 years earlier
than the previous oldest evidence.
The marks would have been made by a prehuman species to cut and
prepare meat and marrow for consumption.
More information:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2010/august/oldest-tool-use-and-meat-eating-revealed75831.html
Activities Calendar - Musée de Moyen Âge (Cluny)
Paris, France
More information in French: http://www.musee-moyenage.fr/index.html
Launch of the online edition of the magazine Friends of
Museums – Spanish Federation of Friends of Museums
The Spanish Federation of Friends of Museums presents a new online
edition of its magazine Friends of Museums, thereby showing their
commitment to new technologies and in that way increasing their
readership to an international level with a modern style but, keeping
faith with the FEAM philosophy. The magazine issue Nº 30 is
monothematic and will focus on “Sustainable Cultural Tourism”
which was the headline for the XVII Friends of Museums National
Congress which took place recently and a hotly debated topic given
that “Cultural Heritage should not become a consumer product
nor just a superficial relationship with the visitor. As the visitor
begins to identify with the heritage, they will be able to appreciate
its value and how important its conservation is, thus becoming an
ally of museums.” According to the statement in “The
Declaration of the International Museum Board (ICOM) and the World
Federation of Friends of Museums (FMAM)”.
More information in Spanish:
http://www.feam.es/PDFs/Revista/38/index.html
(in Italian) No design, nessuna collezione permanente.
Ecco il nuovo Centre Pompidou, a Metz
La città di Metz, nella regione della Lorena, per la sua
posizione strategica vicina al Belgio, al Lussemburgo e alla Germania,
è stata scelta come la sede del nuovo Centre Pompidou Metz,
il primo esempio di decentramento, in Francia, di una grande istituzione
culturale.
Sia dal punto di vista architettonico che museologico, il CPM presenta
sostanziali novità rispetto ad altri recenti musei di arte
contemporanea.
More information:
http://www.tafter.it/2010/08/30/no-design-nessuna-collezione-permanente-ecco-il-nuovo-centre-pompidou-a-metz/
Expected opening of the Charlie Chaplin Museum: Spring
2012. Manoir de Ban (Switzerland)
The Charlie Chaplin Space Museum has a double prestige firm: that
of the artist and that of the cinema expert and his family, who
has supported the creation of this space with great enthusiasm.
The always exceptional aura of the indisputable film star who lived
in a mansion that has become as mythical as the character, expects
a mass media visibility that is far from common.
Located in the Riviere, in the heart of a touristy and cultural
region among the most popular ones in Switzerland, the Charlie Chaplin
Space Museum lies next to the Chillon castle and the Olympic Museum
in Lausana. It is also at the doors of the main festivals and cultural
events of the French-speaking Switzerland, including the Jazz Festival
of Montreux and the Image Festival of Vevey...
More information in French:
http://www.chaplinmuseum.com/fr/espace_musee/le_manoir_de_ban.php
Calling all museums and municipalities across Europe! E=MU2
invites you to participate in their online questionnaires - The
"Museums and Municipalities" policy analysis
The “Museums and Municipalities” policy
analysis group has created two online questionnaires and invite
museums (and galleries) and municipalities across Europe to contribute
to this questionnaire. The analysis of this data will provide a
broader and more precise picture of the current situation between
these two important contributors to local development. E= MU2 met
for a second time in Paris on June 25th at the Université
Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
In September the partners will meet again in Manchester where they
will be discussing the questionnaire responses collected thus far.
It will also be an opportunity to meet and discuss with other experts
and delve even further into these intricate relationships and contributions.
More information:
http://encatc.org/questionnaires/
Pan Am Foundation Museum
The goal of the Pan Am Historical Foundation is to preserve the
history and accomplishments of Pan American World Airways, and the
people who worked to make her the World's Greatest Airline. In addition
to its special projects, the Foundation publishes a quarterly newsletter
and annually reissues the famous Pan Am Calendar.
More information:
http://www.panam.com/pafond1.htm
New Salvador Dali Museum. Saint Petersburg, Florida (USA)
The major news at The Dali is this: Museum Trustees and staff have
moved with resolve and no small measure of courage to begin construction
of a new Museum building to protect our collection from storm and
to welcome our visitors.
We ask our community and wider audience to help us realize, or rather
surrealize, this dream. Please visit, become a member, and if you
are able to do so at any level, make a financial contribution. Our
website provides you an easy way to do so online.
The landmark building will be realized as a collaboration between
architect Yann Weymouth of HOK, the Museum staff, and the builder
the Beck Group. Built more efficiently than many contemporary museum
structures, the new Dali combines elements of the classical and
the fantastical – much like the work of Dali.
More information:
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/
RED LOCATION MUSEUM - Port Elizabeth (South Africa)
RED LOCATION is one of the oldest settled Black Townships of Port
Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. It derives its name
from a series of corrugated iron barrack buildings, which are rusted
a deep red colour. Building materials for these sheds stem from
the First South African War (1899-1902) structures - the Boer concentration
camp at Uitenhage as well as the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at De
Aar. It became a site of struggle during the years of Apartheid.
Many prominent political and cultural leaders were either born or
lived in Red Location and a number of significant "struggle"
(umZabalazo) events occurred here.
More information:
http://redlocationmuseum.webs.com/
Interview of Prof. Xavier Greffe, Paris 1 (France) on the
relationship between museums and municipalities
Xavier Greffe is Professor of economics at the University Paris
I, where he chairs the cultural economics postgraduate program.
He has been an active participant in ENCATC’s working group
“Audience Policies in Europe” chaired by Anne Krebs
from the Louvre Museum. Here, Xavier Greffe shares his thoughts
on the important relationship between museums and municipalities,
and the great potential which such a cooperation can unleash in
terms of regional sustainable development. Very briefly, can you
present the idea behind this policy grouping?
More information:
http://www.encatc.org/pages/fileadmin/user_upload/Newsletters/newsletter_4_2010_Final.pdf
Final Conference held for "Museum Literacy" (MUSLI)
Report available in September
One of ENCATC’s European projects “Museum Literacy”
- or as the partners fondly call it, “MUSLI” - had its
final conference on 7 June 2010. The consortium partners came together
one last time in Bolzano, Italy to present their recommendations
and compelling examples of museum educational activities and practices
to about 50 persons in attendance. It was also a time to reflect
on the highs, lows, surprises the partners met over the project’s
twoyear life. The final report should be available in September
2010 containing a summary of the most effective solutions and practices
identified by the project members as well as case study contributions
from the different partners. Abstracts will be made available in
French, Italian, and Hungarian.
More information:
http://www.encatc.org/pages/index.php?id=122
THE GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE (GCI) - Museum Lighting
Research
Quantifying Change in Ethnographic Materials with Biocolorants
and Structural Colors
The amount of research that has been carried out investigating
the risks of light damage to fine art materials is very small, but
the amount directed at ethnographic and natural history materials
is even smaller. More might have been done had not the fundamental
properties of many of these products been easier to characterize.
Unlike paints and dyes, biological colors are divided into those
created by biopigments and those produced by a handful of physical
phenomena that constructively and/or destructively interfere with
reflected light. Structural colors are notoriously difficult to
measure in a repeatable manner. They cause an angular dependence
to color that gives butterfly wings and peacock feathers their enormous
range of appearance effects.
More information:
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/science/lighting/lighting_component7.html
Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums
The Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums is a select group
of people dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of the
vast and unique collection of art contained in the Vatican Museums.
The Patrons have been in existence since 1982 when a major exhibition
of Vatican art toured the United States in New York, Chicago and
San Francisco. Restoration of the art contained in the exhibition
was made possible by donors recognizing the unique opportunity to
participate in the work of the Vatican Museums. One year later,
the Patrons organization was officially launched. Patrons worldwide
have accepted the same membership in this exclusive work of art
history.
More information:
http://www.vatican-patrons.org/underrestauration.html
Pompidou's Huts / Tadashi Kawamata. Paris (France)
Tadashi Kawamata, a Japanese sculptor and installer, is known for
creating urban spaces that utilize simple materials. Often times,
Kawamata selects an single item, whether it is a material or an
object, that becomes the basic module of a huge construction. His
latest spaces are occupying the external façade of the Centre
Pompidou in Paris. These timbers huts, which are lined with cardboard,
attach on to the existing structural framework, like a parasite,
and morph into something entirely new.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/74126/pompidou’s-huts-tadashi-kawamata/
Philip Johnson's Collection for Sale (USA)
Robin Pogrebin of The New York Times recently reported that Raj
Ahuja, an Indian-born architect who joined Philip Johnson’s
firm back in 1971 and became a partner in 1984, will be selling
the architect’s archive of sketches. And, this isn’t
any ordinary sketchbook. Johnson’s collection includes over
25,000 design sketches, working drawings, renderings and photographs
that cover more than 120 projects from 1968 to 1992. After a bankruptcy
claim left the work in Ahuja’s possession, he has been waiting
to “transfer it to respectful hands” with the hope that
a single institution will acquire the entire collection so as not
to break up the archive.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/73585/philip-johnsons-collection-for-sale/
Mercedes Benz Museum / UN Studio, photos by Michael Schnell
(Germany)
Ten kilometer south from the Porsche Museum we featured last week,
we find the Mercedes Benz Museum, designed by dutch architects UN
Studio and photographed by Michael Schnell. The 35,000sqm project
designed by UN Studio between 2001-2006, includes also a restaurants,
stores, offices and an auditorium.
The design is based on the geometry of a clover, with the spaces
connected between two helical ascending ramps, around a central
atrium.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/72802/mercedes-benz-museum-un-studio-photos-by-michael-schnell/
Beginning an Architecture Library
As the long days of summer are sadly coming to an end, architecture
students across the world will be heading back to their universities
and preparing for their next studio projects. While the upcoming
semester will allow students to master the latest digital modeling
programs and perfect their physical modeling skills, the value of
reading architectural books (whether they be reference, theory,
etc.) should not be overlooked. We found a few lists of books that
are categorized as “the essentials” for any
architecture student.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/73304/beginning-an-architecture-library/
Kolumba Museum / Peter Zumthor. Cologne (Germany)
Special thanks to our reader Jose Fernando Vazquez from Urbana Arquitectura
(view his work previously featured on AD) who has shared these images
of Zumthor’s amazing Kolumba Museum with us. Situated in Cologne,
Germany, a city that was almost completely destroyed in World War
II, the museum houses the Roman Catholic Archdiocese’s collection
of art which spans more than a thousand years. Zumthor’s design
delicately rises from the ruins of a late-Gothic church, respecting
the site’s history and preserving its essence. ”They
[the Archdiocese] believe in the inner values of art, its ability
to make us think and feel, its spiritual values. This project emerged
from the inside out, and from the place,” explained Zumthor
at the museum’s opening.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/72192/kolumba-musuem-peter-zumthor/
New Art Museum / SANAA. New York City, NY (USA)
Recently Pritzker laureate SANAA offers to architects, critics and
customers very sharp architectures, outstanding and internationally
recognized. Most of the times, the reason of this is the simplicity
and clearness of the concept, and its clean translation into construction.
The New Contemporary Art Museum in New York is a precious building
with clear concept and strong impact.
The location context, Lower Manhattan, with its squared blocks and
buildings, can be considered as starting point for the Museum image:
it replies the boxes surrounding, and stacks them one on top of
the other in various sizes and heights, as the plot was a playground
for a composition of cubes. By small but significant shifting of
the cubes, the building gets dynamicity and an attracting shape,
being different but similar to the near constructions.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/70822/new-art-museum-sanaa/
Porsche Museum / Delugan Meissl, photos by Michael Schnell,
Stuttgart (Germany)
Architecture photographer Michael Schnell shared with us his interior
photos of the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, designed by
Austrian architects Delugan Meissl. The project was completed in
2008, after being awarded with the 1st prize in a 2-stage competition
back in 2005.
The exhibition space we see on these photos in contained by a monolothic
volume supported by a steel structure, which spans 5,600sqm to a
dramatic effect as you can see on the above photo.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/71208/porsche-museum-delugan-meissl-photos-by-michael-schnell/
The Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland
winner announced
The jury for the Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland
have recently announced the winner. Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat
received 1st Prize and will design the new museum in Gdansk, the
city where the war broke out. 2nd Prize was awarded to Polish architects
Piotr Plaskowicki & partnerzy Architekci and 3rd Prize to Greece-based
BETAPLAN S.A.
The Jury is of the opinion that the design selected in the Architectural
Competition has every chance of becoming one of the most important
features of the Gdansk City Centre from the very beginning. In our
belief it meets all conditions of joining in the sophisticated symbols
in the future alongside the Armoury, St Mary’s Church, or
the Crane.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/75949/the-museum-of-the-second-world-war-competition-in-poland-winner-announced/
Entry proposal for the Environment Museum Annex Competition,
Rio de Janeiro
Antonio Pedro Coutinho shared with us the entry he designed with
Estelle Dugachard, Fabiana Araújo, Nanda Eskes, Ricardo Caruana
for the competition regarding the expansion of the Environment Museum
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The main challenge dealt in this competition
was finding a way where the architecture would be inserted on the
ecosystem where it was being planned; the magnificent Botanical
Garden of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/70783/entry-proposal-for-the-environment-museum-annex-competition-rio-de-janeiro/
In Progress: Salvador Dalí Museum / HOK + Beck Group.
St. Petersburg - Florida (USA)
HOK, along with Beck Group, has designed a new museum to house the
works of Salvador Dalí in St. Petersburg, Florida. The architecture,
greatly inspired by the great surrealist, “combines elements
of the classical and the fantastical,” according to the
director of the museum. The design speaks to the essence of Dalí
while incorporating functional elements to combat Florida’s
tough weather.
Since Florida is prone to powerful hurricanes, the art is located
above the flood plane and housed within cast-in-place reinforced
18” thick concrete walls. The museum can protect the prized
collection from up to a Category 5 hurricane storm surge and 165mph
winds.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/71318/in-progress-salvador-dali-musuem-hok-beck-group/
Narona Archaeological Museum / Radionica Architekture (Croatia)
In the early 1990s, a team from the Archaeological Museum of Split
discovered the remains of the ancient temple of Augustus in Vid.
Above the temple ruins, an on-site archaeological museum was built.
The museum’s interior is determined by the scale of the excavated
Roman artefacts and statues while its exterior is determined by
the scale of the temple and the forum, the scale of the surrounding
ordinary houses and by the green masses of olive groves and vineyards
climbing up from the square to the church on the hill.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/75419/narona-archaeological-museum-radionica-arhitekture/
Lompreta Nolte Arquitetos Proposal for the Environment
Museum Annex Competition, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Earlier this week we presented you an interesting proposal for the
Environment Museum Annex Competition and now we received an honorable
mention winner, from Lompreta Nolte Arquitetos - Daniel Feldman
and Elizabeth Añaños.
The Botanical Garden, one of the oldest institutions in all Brazil,
is a space of great relevance for the city of Rio de Janeiro. With
around 600 thousand visitants each year, it is an important touristic
spot, orientated to environmental and scientific education as well
as leisure, and recently also cultural program.
The “Cultural Complex” at the entrance of the
Botanical Garden has shown an immense growth of events, and the
Environmental Museum is supposed to be the next and one of the most
important elements of the Complex. Thus the project for the Museum
Annex is mainly a project about integration – integration
of the Museum into the existing facilities and in the environment
of the Botanical Garden.
More information:
http://www.archdaily.com/71304/lompreta-nolte-arquitetos-proposal-for-the-environment-museum-annex-competition-rio-de-janeiro/
Pacific Island Museum Association - PIMA'S Training role
PIMA’s core business is to provide training for staff of Pacific
Island museum and cultural centre in best practice museum standards.
There is a need to teach conservation practices, which are practical
for the Pacific region. Most of these museum and cultural centre
personnel have had no training and thus no experience in working
in a properly maintained and funded museum institution. In bringing
together the cultural professionals from a vast area, the workshop
will also benefit the PIMA organisation in having a PIMA Executive
Board meeting after the workshop is completed. It is often too costly
to organise a meeting of the Board due to excessively expensive
airfares in a region covering two thirds of the world’s surface
– hence whenever a workshop is held, the Board uses this opportunity
to meet. Hence, the last Board meeting was held in Port Vila in
May 2008 immediately following the Oceanic Art Symposium funded
by the French Fonds Pacifique.
More information:
http://www.pima-museum.com/m/articles/view/PIMA-S-TRAINING-ROLE
The World Digital Library initiative gets further expanded
“Libraries, especially digital libraries, are truly at the
heart of knowledge societies; they enable people to access, share
and apply knowledge. UNESCO is committed to further expand universal
participation in the World Digital Library (WDL) which reflects
the values and priorities of our Organization” said UNESCO’s
Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Communication and Information
at the opening of the first official meeting of the WDL partners
held in Washington, DC on June 22-23.
More information:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30617&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Pacific Islands Museum Association's website launched
The new website of the Pacific Islands Museum Association
(PIMA) has been launced on 15 July 2010 and constitutes is also
expected to serve as a platform for regional cooperation in the
field of culture.
PIMA is a regional non-governmental organisation based in Vanuatu
that assists Pacific museums, cultural centres and experts to preserve
and promote Pacific Islands heritage, arts and culture. Since its
establishment in 1994, PIMA has been undertaking activities in the
field of museum development, establishing a network among Pacific
islands museums.
The new website launched with the support of UNESCO aims at strengthening
PIMA's information and communication activities and enhancing the
visibility of Pacific cultures in particular those in small islands
states and territories.
More information:
http://www.pima-museum.com/
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