Museums of the Future: A Discussion with Those Designing and Leading Them
Sponsored by Sciame Construction, LLC | Presented by Thelma Golden, Max Hollein, Joseph Mizzi, Thomas Phifer, FAIA, Lisa Phillips and Shohei Shigematsu
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Last Fall, two iconic museum buildings experienced milestone anniversaries. Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao turned 25, and Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas celebrated 50 years since its opening in 1972. This Record on the Road in New York City will look at the impact those revolutionary buildings have had on museum architecture by talking with architects who are designing museums now. Speakers include Thomas Phifer, whose first museum, The North Carolina Museum of Art (2010) in Raleigh, was directly influenced by the Kimbell. He has since designed new wings for the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) and Glenstone Museum (2018), and the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, expected to open in 2024. Shohei Shigematsu of OMA will discuss his additions to the Albright Knox Museum in Buffalo, NY, and the New Museum in Manhattan—the former finishing construction and the latter just beginning. Joining the architects will be museum leaders (Max Hollein of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Lisa Phillips of the New Museum) overseeing major building projects to discuss how their institutions have evolved over the last decades and what they see for the future of these cultural buildings and the cities—both big and small—they call home.
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Originally published in The NEWS
Originally published in March 2023
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Discuss ways of designing and constructing cultural buildings that create a greater sense of community and attract a wider, more diverse audience.
- Describe the challenges involved with adding to and intervening in existing musuem buildings and exhibition spaces.
- Identify the types of spaces beyond galleries that have become integral to the planning and design of new museum buildings.
- Discuss the transformative impact—both economic and cultural—museum buildings have on their neighborhoods and immediate surroundings.
