Lightfall: Genealogy of a Museum

Name: Lightfall: Genealogy of a Museum
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Paul and Herta Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

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Lightfall: Genealogy of a Museum explores the innovative design and museological approach of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art's Paul and Herta Amir Building. This work examines how the building introduces a new spatial and tectonic paradigm, blending the traditional 'white box' museum with an architectural spectacle. The dispersed public spaces become dynamic sites for artistic interventions, organised around a striking twenty-six-metre tall spiralling atrium known as the 'lightfall'. The book highlights how the museum's unique geometry fosters curatorial creativity and demonstrates a harmonious balance between segregation and synthesis in architectural and museological space.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary architecture, museology, and arts & culture, especially those fascinated by museum design and innovative spatial concepts.

The geometry and organization of the building stimulates curatorial imagination, proving that architectural and museological space can be simultaneously segregated, contiguous, and synthesized. This book provides a spatial and tectonic paradigm; for museology. It represents a new approach for resolving tensions between divergent cultural agendas.

The project for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art represents a new architectural paradigm for museums' spaces. An inspiring book for all those interested in contemporary architecture.

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For architecture, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art's Paul and Herta Amir Building provides a new spatial and tectonic paradigm; for museology, it represents a new approach for resolving tensions between divergent cultural agendas.

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an unusual synthesis of two opposing paradigms of the contemporary museum: the museum of neutral white boxes dedicated to aesthetic contemplation and the museum of architectural spectacle, a site of public excitation.

Rather than being concentrated in a grand lobby or atrium, the public spaces of the building are dispersed, becoming sites for artistic interventions. A series of rectangular galleries are organised around the "lightfall", a twenty-six-meter tall spiralling atrium that organises the building according to multiple axes that deviate significantly from floor to floor.

The geometry and organisation of the building stimulates curatorial imagination, proving that architectural and museological space can be simultaneously segregated, contiguous, and synthesised.

Lightfall: Genealogy of a Museum explores these innovative aspects, highlighting the dynamic relationship between space and art.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788857226927

Publisher: Skira

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 November 2016

Country: Italy

Imprint: Skira

Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Contributors:

Edited by Preston Scott Cohen

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1410g

Pages: 192

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Preston Scott Cohen is the Gerald M. McCue Professor of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Dr. Eran Neuman earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in architecture at the Bezalel Art and Design Academy in Jerusalem.