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Must-Visit Architectural Work of 2017
What Better Way To Witness Some Of The Most Fascinating Man-Made Structures In The World Than By Traveling In Your RV To Each Site.
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We look at some of the best architecture work of 2017. Buildings that when seen in person will make you "awe" in amazement and/or disbelief. Therefore, these sites are best to observe in person by traveling there, and maybe even sight-seeing the rest of the city they are in! NYC’s Met Museum hosted the industry’s leading builders—David Adjaye, Wang Shu, Elizabeth Diller, among others—to reflect on a year of outstanding achievements in 2017. In particular, lecturer of contemporary architecture Beatrice Galilee spoke with Architectural Digest magazine to recall when she became The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (The Met) first curator of architecture and design.
Fred Berstein, writer for Architectural Design, interviews with Galilee and relays what she has to say abut the topic: "It’s important to look at architecture globally; it’s a way to represent the diversity of cultures and identities reflected in the profession." Before coming to the Met, Galilee, an architectural historian, was chief curator of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale and co-curator of citywide architecture festivals in Gwangju, South Korea, and Shenzen, China, and director of The Gopher Hole, an exhi-bition and project space in London. The Digest says: Shih-Fu Peng of Heneghan Peng Architects, in Dublin, showed the Palestinian Museum on the West Bank. He talked about the way it follows the abandoned agricultural terraces, taking the land from food production to cultural production. Galilee responds: And Junya Ishigami, of Tokyo, showed a glass pavilion in a park in Holland that follows the lines of existing pathways. In some of the photos you couldn’t see the pavilion at all. I thought it was exquisite. The Columbia Medical School building that Elizabeth Diller presented [the Vagelos Center] and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which was shown by David Adjaye, have been widely published. That was also true of the new courtyard at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, presented by Amanda Levete. There's many honorable works of art, but these a ones to note. The best architecture can be hard to find. For example, what's covered here takes you to destinations like Dublin and London... but hey it's a reason to explore!
Read the full interview right here at Architectural Digest.
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