Tuesday, at the Museum of Modern Art, the French architect Jean Nouvel, unveiled his stunning design for the National Museum of Qatar. The concern about yet another modern culture losing it's heritage was the main focus for the architect's design. Melding the roots of the Bedouins and the urbanization of what the area has become, the museum is described to look like caravanserai (traditional enclosed resting place across desert trade routes).
"Inspired by sand roses, the tiny formations that crystallize just below the desert's surface, the building's dozens of disclike forms, intersecting at odd angles and piling up unevenly atop one another, celebrate a delicate beauty in the desert landscape that is invisible to those who have not spent time there. The lightness with which these forms rest on the land, meanwhile, conjures the ethereality of desert life....The tilting plates that form the walls in some places will create peekaboo views from one gallery to another, pulling you along."
-nicolai ouroussoff nytimes
1 comment:
It does look like it would be a cool museum but I have to agree with others. Too many people are coming into communities and changing things to update them, not thinking about how important it is to maintain the heritage of the area.
BTW when did you go to Qatar?
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