Oxymoronically, art museums can be incredibly alienating places. Often high strung, tense, even comically pretentious buildings that have more to do with the architect’s ego than the display of art. Whatever happened to that Teutonic edict ‘Form follows function’? Seems when it comes to the task of housing the world’s greatest emblematic creations of humanity, all signs of humanity, and human scale get eliminated. Bring on the megalithic atrium, order more polished stone, glass, and concrete.
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