Isn't that the meaning of "great museum architecture?"
"Without art, museum architecture should look unfinished," he said.
In her "Welle" (1998), museum architecture took on a bruisable quality: a wall rained constant tears.
With the ascendance of museum architecture again in the last two decades, we've returned to the idea of presenting art in a room.
Many of them are extremely successful, architecturally, but they are not the issue in terms of new museum architecture.
It certainly has had to do with entertainment and fashion, these days the essence of the art of promoting new museums and new museum architecture.
A challenge for museum architecture is the differing purposes of the building.
There is, of course, no reason that all museum architecture must look Laocoonic.
The building isn't perfect (nor is the first hang of the collection), but its flaws pale beside what usually passes for museum architecture these days.
In 1988 it was awarded the Europa Nostra prize as an outstanding example of modern museum architecture and design.