Abstract
The resource paper analyses the contemporary Spanish architecture of museums and exhibition spaces based on different architectural aspects. The increasing number of museums in the last 20 years intensifies the actuality of the theme - contemporary museologists have established a tendency of building new museums. The continuous growth of the number and types of exhibition spaces demand a new way of systematization. In addition, the museum has become a communal and meeting place, which situates the exhibited works of art in a new context, providing wide perspective for examining art, architecture and their connection, and giving a general idea of that in the examined epoch. The aspects of the analysis developed by ourselves have an approach based on design, completing the existing museological and historical bibliography. The architecture of exhibition spaces is one of the most independent genres and it allows unique forming of space and volume, however, there are strict tendencies that make their classifying possible.
Highlights
The independent forming of space allows the development of architectural principles
As the exhibition spaces more often became the subject of design projects, the architectural aspects were emphasized
The paper analyzed the Spanish exhibition spaces based on four aspects: the relation between building and visitor, building and exhibit, building and past, and building and environment
Summary
The independent forming of space allows the development of architectural principles. From the viewpoint of design, the museum has become one of the noblest (and most popular) functions by today, and it is regarded as the top of the history based function-hierarchy. As the exhibition spaces more often became the subject of design projects, the architectural aspects were emphasized. The first two categories concern the communication between building and society, and analyze principally the interior and the arrangement of spaces. The visitors route in the museum affects the relationship between the receiver and the exhibited works of art, and the connection of building and object describes the relationship of architect and artist. This two-directional communication (among building, object and visitor) plays a major role in the architectural design of museums. The other two categories place the building in temporal and
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