Architype Dialogue presents Preston Scott Cohen What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The predicament facing architecture, with respect to the museum, is the conflict between two opposing paradigms, both mandated by cultural developments out of [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Fernando Romero What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? To work in this economy means needing to support cost efficiency for every single solution, and a building of this complexity requests an unlimited [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents John Beckmann What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? We wanted to create gallery spaces that were unobstructed by columns, so we hit upon the idea of a structural cage or lattice, that [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Wolf D. Prix What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? We wanted to redefine a museum not as a closed container for art, but as a vibrant public space. We resolved this through [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Mark Cavagnero What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The building is an important building beloved in the community of Oakland, and within the larger San Francisco Bay Area. Changing and adding onto [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Renzo Zecchetto What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The Institution has an interactive artist-in-residence program that effectively transforms the way the exhibit space works, going from a conventional passive exhibit to a [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Stanley Saitowitz What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? The design of contemporary museum can be characterized by two polar approaches. On the one-hand buildings which aim to be works of art in [&hellip
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Architype Dialogue presents Peter Q. Bohlin, FAIA What was the most difficult issue about working within this building type or the most unexpected challenge that may have influenced new thought in your project? It is difficult to describe building in an environment as inviting as Hawaii as anything but a perfect opportunity. The sun, ocean, [&hellip
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