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Creating a dialogue across time in Athens : the new Acropolis museum and the Parthenon

conference contribution
posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Chloe Antonio, Ursula De JongUrsula De Jong
A visit to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, in late June 2010 set in train a number of questions and inspired a research project to begin to unravel something of the complex relationship between ancient and modern architecture on the Athenian Acropolis. Research was guided by the question: how does the contemporary museum, designed by Swiss born architect Bernard Tschumi in collaboration with local Greek architect Michalis Photiadis relate to the ancient Acropolis and the fifth century BC Parthenon, whose sculptures it was to house? A critical literature review was augmented by design analysis and field experience. This paper documents the resulting critical thematic investigations of the Parthenon, the Acropolis and the New Museum through siting, materiality and light, alignment, visual connections, through exploitation of the unique Attic light, orchestrated movement and considered juxtapositions. Research has revealed that Tschumi’s deliberate strategy of creating a dialogue between his building and the ancient monuments holds the key to his design intent, to creatively exploring contemporary architecture at the edge of such a physically and culturally dominant ancient plateau.

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Event

Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia. Conference : Architecture @ the Edge (2011 : Geelong, Vic.)

Pagination

71 - 81

Publisher

Deakin University, School of Architecture & Building

Location

Geelong, Vic.

Place of publication

Geelong, Vic.

Start date

2011-09-18

End date

2011-09-21

ISBN-13

9780958192552

Language

eng

Publication classification

E1 Full written paper - refereed

Copyright notice

2011, Chloe Antonio and Ursula de Jong

Editor/Contributor(s)

H Elkadi, L Xu, J Coulson

Title of proceedings

Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia

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