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Snøhetta Integrates Norwegian and Upper Midwest Traditions in the Design of the Vesterheim Cultural Campus in Iowa, US

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 06:30:00 +0000

Snøhetta unveiled the design of a new building and landscape design for the Vesterheim campus in Decorah, Iowa. The campus, which also contains the National Norwegian-American Museum and Folk Art School, explores the diversity of American immigration through the lens of the Norwegian-American experience. The new 8,000-square-foot building, known as “the Commons,” is set to become the entry point and main gathering space for the cultural campus. Aside from anchoring the site, the intervention also aims to strengthen the site’s connection to the city. The building is scheduled to be completed in the Summer of 2023.

Surface Mag Interviews Liz Diller on Architecture, Art, and Early "Aha" Moments

Dave Kim — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Below is an excerpt of the cover story of this month’s Surface magazine: an in-depth interview with Elizabeth Diller, published online for the first time here on ArchDaily.

What If MOMA Had Expanded Underground (And Saved The American Folk Art Museum)?

B. Deland Pollak — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 01:00:00 +0000

In January of this year, the latest work by Smiljan Radic, the Chilean architect chosen to design the next Serpentine Pavilion, opened to public acclaim. The Museum of Pre-Columbian Art (Museo de Arte Precolombino), located in Santiago de Chile, is a restoration project that managed to sensitively maintain an original colonial structure - all while increasing the space by about 70%.

Tod Williams Devastated Over Folk Art Museum's Fate

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Tod Williams has broke his silence in his first interview since the Museum of Modern Art announced their decision to raze the former Folk Art Museum, expressing devastation that the building will be “reduced to a memory.”

Preparations Begin to Demolish the American Folk Art Museum

Karissa Rosenfield — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Preparations have commenced to demolish Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects’ American Folk Art Museum in New York. Despite international backlash from preservationists, architects and critics, the neighboring Museum of Modern Art will raze the 12-year-old structure in an effort to make way for an expansion designed by Diller Scofidio & Renfro. According to recent reports, scaffolding has arrived at the site and will soon be erected in front of the museum’s distinct, copper-bronze facade. More on the controversy, here.

Dear MoMA, Couldn't the Nouvel Tower Save the American Folk Art Museum?

Rory Stott — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:00:00 +0000

In this Metropolis Magazine post on MoMA's planned demolition of the American Folk Art Museum, Karrie Jacobs asks a strangely unasked question: How has the Nouvel Tower - in its day the most controversial of MoMA's expansion plans - not been brought into the debate? The Jean Nouvel-designed tower was predicated up a circulation plan that, by necessity, ignored the (then occupied) Folk Art Museum entirely. Why is this plan no longer possible? Read the fascinating argument here.

MoMA to Preserve Folk Art Facade

Karissa Rosenfield — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Though it has been confirmed that Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Museum of Modern Art expansion will result in the demise of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects' American Folk Art Museum, the New York Times has confirmed that the beloved copper-bronze facade will be preserved.

OPINION: DS+R Should Have Resigned from the MoMA Commission

Martin Pedersen — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

With all the controversy surrounding Diller Scofidio +Renfro (DSR) and MoMA's decision to demolish the American Folk Art Museum to make way for expansion, DS+R has increasingly come under fire (indeed, even DS+R's democratizing move to make the MoMA's sculpture garden accessible to the public has provoked considerable ire). In the following article, which originally appeared on Metropolis as "Damage Control," critic and author Martin Pedersen questions: why didn't DS+R just walk away?

Glenn Lowry on American Folk Art Museum: The Decision Has Been Made

Vanessa Quirk — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday, Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Elizabeth Diller, principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, presented their plans for the MoMA expansion to an audience in New York City, insisting - once again - that they require the demolition of the American Folk Art Museum.

The Indicator: The Floor Plates Just Didn’t Line Up

Guy Horton — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Folk Art Museum is most certainly doomed; it may have been doomed from its first appearance. Designed and built to endure, it will soon dissipate in a fog of demolition and fading memory, its lifespan ultimately briefer than a McDonald’s franchise. Looks aren’t everything, I guess.

Liz Diller on MoMA Expansion: We'd Be Against Us Too "If We Didn’t Know All the Details That We Know"

Vanessa Quirk — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In a must-read interview with Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times, Liz Diller defends her firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and their design of the MoMA expansion.

Critical Round-Up: Reaction to the Folk Art Museum's Demolition, MoMA's Expansion

Vanessa Quirk — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The flurry of criticism that erupted when MoMA announced its plans to demolish the American Folk Art Museum (in its new plans for expansion, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro) has yet to settle. After the break, we offer a more complete round-up of the critics' reactions - including Paul Goldberger's of Vanity Fair, Michael Kimmelman's for The New York Times, and more...

Confirmed: American Folk Art Museum to Be Demolished

Vanessa Quirk — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In a statement released last night, Glenn Lowry, the director of the MoMA, confirmed that the American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects, will be demolished in order to make way for a re-design and expansion spearheaded by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R).

Critics React to Folk Art Museum’s Imminent Demolition

Vanessa Quirk — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Just as designers have reacted to the death sentence of Ted Williams and Billie Tsien's American Folk Art Museum building, forming petitions and a tumblr (crowdsourcing designs that integrate the building with the MoMA's existing facilities), architecture critics have also been wielding their weapon - words - and entering the fray.

The Indicator: Ipso Facto

Vanessa Quirk — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It is a building, a building in New York City, a building erected in the dust of 9/11, a building that upon completion signaled hope for larger reconstructions, a building that presents itself to the world through the intricate patina and pocking of white bronze. White bronze. This alone conjures something alchemic, ancient, timeless.

Barry Bergdoll Breaks Silence About American Folk Art Museum

Vanessa Quirk — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Among the many ironies of the MoMA's decision to demolish Ted Williams and Billie Tsien's 12-year old building for the American Folk Art Museum, is the most obvious: as a cultural institution, the MoMA is meant to value and protect, not demolish, architecture.

After 12 Years, Tod Williams & Billie Tsien's NYC Gem To Be Demolished

Vanessa Quirk — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

“There are of course the personal feelings — your buildings are like your children, and this is a particular, for us, beloved small child. But there is also the feeling that it’s a kind of loss for architecture, because it’s a special building, a kind of small building that’s crafted, that’s particular and thoughtful at a time when so many buildings are about bigness.” - Billie Tsien, quoted in The New York Times

Museum Closure Exposes Financial Risk of Signature Architecture

Samuel Jacobson — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:00:01 +0000

NEW YORK–Although the American Folk Art Museum has avoided dissolution thanks to a cash infusion from trustees and the Ford Foundation, the institution’s ongoing financial troubles raise difficult questions about the relationship between signature architecture and cultural capital.