Triple Bond: Essays on Art, Architecture and the Museum

by Wouter Davidts

Offering new insights into the role of museums, Wouter Davidts (author of The Fall of the Studio ) investigates the connection between architecture, the museum as an institution, the museum program and art. A museum’s architecture may be deployed in a variety of as an autonomous icon, as a flexible space, as a PR instrument, as a memory machine, as a stimulus to urban renewal, as a landscape theme, as a political trump card, as a storage depot for artifacts, and so on. Davidts explores these perspectives through several case studies--the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern and US institutions such as The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Los Angeles and MoMA P.S.1 in New York.

Genres: Art

240 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2014

About the author

Wouter Davidts teaches at the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies and the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning at Ghent University (UGent), where he founded the interdisciplinary research KB45 (Kunst in België sinds 1945 / Art in Belgium since 1945).