The Art Museum: Typological Trajectories

Harvard GSD

This seminar provides a critical analysis of the art museum. Rooted in the varied contexts and motives of its programmatic evolution, the course equips students with tools to anticipate the art museum's typological trajectory amidst socio-economic, cultural, and environmental challenges. At stake is architecture's prerogative to enable the institution's relevance.The art museum has emerged as one of the most significant and prolific typologies of the last century. Its edifice is at once a…