Conceptual Interaction between Art Content and Museum Architecture in Art Museum Design

Abstract

This dissertation introduces the conceptual interaction between art content and museum architecture as an analytical aspect in art museum design and hence elaborates the resulting prototypes and formative ideas that are not yet part of the official body of knowledge on art museum architecture. This specific aspect of art museum architecture was encouraged by recent re-actualizations of some forgotten architectural works and it concurred on the issues of identifying establishments different from the traditional museum within the new museology. The research involves crossing of disciplinary boundaries in order to improve the understanding of the discovered prototypes and formative ideas resulting from the conceptual interaction between art content and museum architecture also referred to as microstructure and macrostructure, respectively.