Papers by Dreama Simeng Lin
There are two ways to conceptualize the art museum architecture: moral judgments, and "a genuinel... more There are two ways to conceptualize the art museum architecture: moral judgments, and "a genuinely dialectical attempt to think our present of time in History." 1 The first approach leads toward the question that if the museum design should prioritize display of art or civic responsibilities. The second approach views the architecture as part of visual culture of postmodernism, the cultural dominant of the logic of late capitalism. 2 In the case study of two recent additions to the Paris exhibition scene, Pavillon Circulaire and Foundation Louis Vuitton, the author follows these approaches through the lens of two scholars, Andrew McCellan, and Frederic Jameson. The paper begins with an analysis of both architectural designs and visitor experiences of two exhibition buildings. The first discussion shows that the dichotomous theory of McCellan failed to explain the display of art in the Pavillon and the Foundation, where the boundary of curatorial and civic roles blurred. It is only through the lens of Jameson that one could understand the design intentions and limits of two exhibition spaces. What the architecture of Pavillon Circulaire and Fondation Louis Vuitton try to resolve, whether accomplished or not, is the dilemma of Postmodernism as cultural dominant, the dilemma between the abstract belief of Paris culture heritage, and the existential daily life. 3
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Papers by Dreama Simeng Lin