Abstract

Il testo intende analizzare l’idea di museo come deposito proposta da Louis Kahn nel progetto non realizzato per la de Menil Foundation in Texas, preceduta dalle realizzazioni per la Yale University nel Connecticut e del Kimbell Art Museum a Fort Worth. Analizzando il significato etimologico della parola ‘deposito’ come atto o luogo per la conservazione e la trasmissione della memoria si vuole stabilire un ponte con alcuni fenomeni del contemporaneo nell’epoca del World Wide Web e, in particolare, con l’opera di musealizzazione dell’architettura e della città proposta dal regista britannico Peter Greenaway per interrogarsi infine, anche nell’epoca del digitale, sulla necessità dello spazio per la rappresentazione dei valori di una comunità. The paper aims to analyse the idea of ‘museum as storage’ proposed by Louis Kahn in the unbuilt project for the de Menil Foundation in Texas preceded by the constructions for Yale University in Connecticut and of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. By analysing the etymological meaning of the word ‘storage’ (in Italian, deposito) as the act or the place for preservation and transmission of the memory, a link is established with some contemporary phenomena in the era of the World Wide Web and, in particular, with the work of musealization of architecture and the city proposed by the British director Peter Greenaway, in order to finally question, also in the digital age, the need of the space for the representation of the values of a community.

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