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Title
Lightfall
Type
Text
Monograph
Subject
Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut. Herta and Paul Amir Building
Art museum architecture--Israel--Tel Aviv (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Plans
Geographic Coverage
Israel
Classification
LCC: N3750.T45 C64 2016
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
Summary
For architecture, the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts 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 light fall, a twenty-six-meter tall spiraling 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.
Table Of Contents
The route to a building / Preston Scott Cohen
The museum as genealogy / Preston Scott Cohen
Herta and Paul Amir Building, Tel Aviv Museum of Art / Preston Scott Cohen
Geometry(') rules: Preston Scott Cohen's Tel Aviv Museum / Robert Levit
Surface activtion Sylvia Lavin
Ornament of the city / Antoine Picon
Knot vs. Dome: Peter Eisenman in converstion with Scott Cohen / Peter Eisenman
The historicity of the modern: Preston Scott Cohen's Tel Aviv Museum / Daniel Sherer
From concept to building: description of a process / Amit Nemlich
A diagrammatic essay on the Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building / Carl Dworkin and Preston Scott Cohen
Competing proposal
Lightfall design
Final building design
Plaza alterations
Construction sequence
Structure
Façade construction
Casting the lightfall
Completed building
Museum opening and installations
Harvard GSD exhibition.
Authorized Access Point
Cohen, Preston Scott Lightfall