Instituto Cultural Inhotim is an original museum complex located in Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is formed by a non-linear sequence of pavilions in the midst of a botanical garden.
Studio Banana interviews Theodora Vischer, director of the Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland.
Studio Banana TV interviews Agustín Pérez-Rubio, current director and former chief curator of the MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum in León, Spain.
Studio Banana interviews Carmen Cantón, one of the most peculiar Spanish women-artists.
Studio Banana TV interviews Jacques Herzog from the acclaimed architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron, authors of the Caixa Forum building in Madrid.
Studio Banana TV interviews the architecture duo Cruz-Ortiz, authors of the Rijksmuseum renovation in Amsterdam.
“The art museum stands in the light of Lake Constance. It is made of glass and steel and a cast concrete stone mass which endows the interior of the building with texture and spatial composition. From the outside, the building looks like a lamp. It absorbs the changing light of the sky, the haze of the lake, it reflects light and colour and gives an intimation of its inner life according to the angle of vision, the daylight and the weather.” Peter Zumthor, Architect
Currently, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City presents the first comprehensive exhibition in New York of the works of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, the Tokyo-based architects who have designed the museum’s new building at 235 Bowery.
The Toledo Museum of Art glass pavilion showcases glass artworks and glass-making studios. Architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the Tokyo-based architecture firm SANAA chose to design the building primarily out of glass.
Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. Part 2 of the coverage of the exhibition Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany