András Szántó. Imagining the Future Museum

Following on the widely read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today's generation of museum directors, New York-based author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó's new compilation turns its attention to architects. The conclusion of The Future of the Museum was that the "software" of art museums has evolved. Museum leaders are "working to make institutions more open, inclusive, experiential, culturally polyphonic, technologically savvy, attuned to the needs of their communities, and engaged in the defining issues of our time." It follows that the "hardware" of the art museum must also change. Conversations with a carefully selected group of architects survey current thinking in the field, engaging not only architects who have built some of the world's most iconic institutions, but also members of an emerging global generation that is destined to leave its mark on the museum of the future. CONVERSATION PARTNERS: Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ), David Adjaye (Adjaye Associates), Paula Zasnicoff Cardoso & Carlos Alberto Maciel (Arquitetos Associados), David Chipperfield (David Chipperfield Architects), Minsuk Cho (Mass Studies), Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro), Frida Escobedo, Sou Fujimoto (Sou Fujimoto Architects), Lina Ghotmeh (Lina Ghotmeh - Architecture), Bjarke Ingels (BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group), Kabage Karanja & Stella Mutegi (Cave_bureau), Li Hu & Huang Wenjing (OPEN), Jing Liu & Florian Idenburg (SO - IL), Yansong Ma (MAD Architects), Winy Maas (MVRDV), Roth - Eduardo Neira (Roth Architecture), Stephan Schütz (gmp Architekten), Kerstin Thompson (_KTA), Xu Tiantian (DnA Design and Architecture), Kulapat Yantrasast (WHY), Liam Young (SCI-Arc) ANDRÁS SZÁNTÓ (*1964, Budapest) advises museums, cultural institutions, and leading brands on cultural strategy. An author and editor, his writings have appeared in the New York Times, Artforum, the Art Newspaper, and many other publications. He has overseen the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University and the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Szántó, who lives in Brooklyn, has been conducting conversations with art-world leaders since the early 1990s, including as a frequent moderator of the Art Basel Conversations series.

Cover Contents Introduction The Dialogues Sites of Empathy - Kulapat Yantrasast Freedom Platform - Paula Zasnicoff Cardoso & Carlos Alberto Maciel The New Public Room - David Adjaye Placemaking - Kerstin Thompson Spectacle or Sanctuary - David Chipperfield Temporality - Jing Liu & Florian Idenburg Porosity - Frida Escobedo Context Is Everything - Stephan Schütz Archaeology of the Future - Lina Ghotmeh Civic Space - Minsuk Cho DAVID ADJAYE - Adjaye Associates PAULA ZASNICOFF CARDOSO & CARLOS ALBERTO MACIEL - Arquitetos Associados BJARKE INGELS - BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group KABAGE KARANJA & STELLA MUTEGI - Cave_bureau DAVID CHIPPERFIELD - David Chipperfield Architects ELIZABETH DILLER - Diller Scofidio + Renfro XU TIANTIAN - DnA Design and Architecture FRIDA ESCOBEDO - Frida Escobedo STEPHAN SCHÜTZ - gmp · von Gerkan, Marg und Partners Architects KERSTIN THOMPSON - Kerstin Thompson Architects LIAM YOUNG LINA GHOTMEH - Lina Ghotmeh - Architecture MA YANSONG - MAD Architects MINSUK CHO - Mass Studies WINY MAAS - MVRDV KUNLÉ ADEYEMI - NLÉ LI HU & HUANG WENJING - OPEN ROTH - EDUARDO NEIRA - Roth Architecture JING LIU & FLORIAN IDENBURG - SO - IL SOU FUJIMOTO - Sou Fujimoto Architects KULAPAT YANTRASAST - WHY Architecture The Light Institution - Li Hu & Huang Wenjing Architect as Artist - Elizabeth Diller Museum as Exhibition - Bjarke Ingels Surreality - Ma Yansong Green Space - Sou Fujimoto The Rural Museum - Xu Tiantian New Cities & Climates - Kunlé Adeyemi The New Old - Winy Maas The Anthropocene Museum - Kabage Karanja & Stella Mutegi Nature & Play - Roth - Eduardo Neira Digital Spaces - liam young The Dialogues Image Credits Acknowledgments Colophon Back cover