Permanence and transformations

Chipperfield in Athens: memory, invention, contradiction, counterfeit

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https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v11i20.441

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Athens, minimalism, Mediterranean, landscape, museum

Abstract

The text analyzes the background and the theoretical implications of the project for the expansion of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (MAN) designed by the architect D. Chipperfield. The genesis and characteristics of the urban context shaping the consolidated city related to the project are analyzed. The nineteenth-century urban plan as well as the dynamics and transformations that take place in a context influenced by a constantly changing tourism model are particularly addressed.

Chipperfield's approach to the expansion of the MAN is explored regarding the compositional strategies through which both scale relationships and meaning variations of the context’s features are regulated, i.e., just as they are configured in the contemporary city. These strategies are continuously compared with the Neues Museum in Berlin which has also been designed by D. Chipperfield.

Finally, the text reflects on the role of the contemporary museum as not only a complex organism but also an integral part of the urban fabric by means of strategies which -taking into account the specific Athenian condition- seem to prelude a contextualist minimalism.

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Author Biography

Alexios Tzompanakis, Universidad Tecnológica de Creta, Grecia

Dr. Arquitecto (Sapienza, Universidad de Roma). Profesor Asociado en Diseño Arquitectónico y Urbano en la Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Tecnológica de Creta (TUC). Sus intereses se focalizan en la transformación del paisaje urbano en la transición de la modernidad a la posmodernidad y en la relación entre el diseño arquitectónico/urbano y los tejidos urbanos históricos. La investigación sobre estos temas se lleva a cabo a través de la actividad docente y profesional, así como mediante la participación en concursos de diseño arquitectónico/urbano, donde obtuvo varios premios.

Roles de autor: Administración del proyecto; Adquisición de fondos; Análisis formal; Conceptualización; Curaduría de datos; Escritura - revisión y edición; Investigación; Metodología; Recursos; Redacción - borrador original; Software; Supervisión; Validación; Visualización  

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2024-07-05

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Tzompanakis, A. (2024). Permanence and transformations: Chipperfield in Athens: memory, invention, contradiction, counterfeit. A&P Continuidad, 11(20). https://doi.org/10.35305/23626097v11i20.441

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Vol. 11 No. 20 (2024): DESIGN OF HERITAGE TOURIST LANDSCAPES

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