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The Neue Museum

 

An urban plaza & museum extension to Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie

Advanced Topics Studio with Professor Mohamed Sharif

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Design Concept

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This studio concerns the architectural design of a museum building for the art of the 20th century, as well as the design of the open spaces of the building’s immediate surroundings. The site for this Museum of the 20th Century is located right in the heart of central Berlin, on the “Kulturforum” (Cultural Forum) with its world-class museum and research institutions. The new building ought to enrich and complement the architectural ensemble of the Kulturforum with outstanding architecture. At the same time, the building task is tied to the challenge of updating the idea of an art museum and developing it further. The aim is not only to create ideal spaces for art and for the art experience. The art museum should at the same time be a place of encounter and of interdisciplinary debate – both programmatically and architecturally.

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The Museum of the 20th Century is to become an identity-forming location for a plural and tolerant society of the 21st century in the sense of recollection and self-questioning.​​​​

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