Federico Soriano Pelaez shared with us their third prize winning proposal for the New Taipei City Museum of Art. Their aim was to design a museum which contains all museums. A museum which is the entirety of all the museums in the world. They collected 100 of the most important museums of art from around the world. It is architecture as a refined abstraction of a historic landscape. It is a recollection of generic fragments from the plans of the museums from around the world which will be inserted into the Taipei City Museum of Art. More images and project description after the break.
Do you want just another project? Do you want just another form? A form which evokes many others. Just one more among the uncountable collection of forms generated in recent years. Do you want an object? An object to be built soon and forgotten just as soon. One to be kept on shelves along with all the rest which is out of fashion. Or do we want to change and think in ideas instead of objects? Think in concepts and processes. Choose matters. Create pathways. Have ideas prevail over formal aspects. Leave the final solution as a mere support. Work with a temporality and foreign to trends. It seems to be appropriate when designing a museum of conceptual art. The concept is the piece of work itself.
