The New Taipei City Museum of Art conceptual design proposal by Yi-Hsiang Chao Architects and Infinite Studio was initiated from a basic question: How does a museum allow the public to experience a seamless fusion between life and art? A museum is usually located at a specific place and carries certain cultural tasks. Corresponding to the competition’s objectivities, is it a dilemma or a contradiction to expect a museum to allow lives happen seamlessly with the architecture? More images and architects’ description after the break.
We argue that a new museum of contemporary art is not merely an object-like building. Facing the sustainable environment of Taiwan, is a heroic architecture the only possibility of a future museum? To us, an ideal relationship between art and life exists in the countless moments and situations found within life. The creation process of art can never be separated from one’s life. This process is an ideal form of human intellectual thinking and a museum is an ideal space of it.
