Peachy the Magazine October/November 2013 | Page 31
ART + ARCHITECTURE
of the atrium as the piece was played.
Roberta Smith remarked, “The work
provides a complex aesthetic experience
while blurring the boundaries between
traditional mediums and demonstrating
the way that new art comes from old…
The evolution of the atrium from dead
zone to nerve center is a fascinating part
of MoMA’s history.”
While the projects discussed above
may have laid a foundation for a sea
change in museum design, it was
arguably the 1997 opening of Frank
Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum,
Bilbao that was the true genesis of a
redefinition (albeit by deconstruction)
of the art museum. There may not be
a more polarizing architectural figure
than Gehry, but no one can argue that
Bilbao was an immediate and rather
shocking success, bringing economic
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