Farshid Moussavi, OBE, RA, is an architect and Professor of the PracticeofArchitectureinthe HarvardUniversity Graduate School of Design.Prior to founding FMA, she wasco-founderofForeign Office Architects(FOA). Shehas published, in conjunction withHarvard University, an influential series of books: TheFunction of Ornament (2006), TheFunction of Form (2009), and The Function of Style (2014).
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7Architectureand Micropolitics–Farshid Moussavi
18 Afterword: On the Politics of Space–Jacques Rancière
21 The Museum as Urban Living Room MOCACleveland
195 Separation and Unity in aMultistoreyResidential Block Lot 19 Residential Block, La Défense–Nanterre
341 Crafting Pleasureand Curiosity in AffordableHousing Folie Divine, Montpellier
471 AMuslim Community Centreasa Cultural Common Ismaili CenterHouston
580 Credits
583 Chronology of FMA Projects 2011–2022
587 Acknowledgements
This matrix illustratesthe challenge of designing amuseum of contemporaryart:how to negotiate between the demand forspatial diversity thatarisesfromthe different requirements of the artworksand the demand forflexibility thatarisesfromchanging exhibitions.
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Paul Pfeiffer, Long Count
TomasSaraceno, Venice 2024 2400 On Kawara, Date Painting
Fiona Banner TheNam
Oron Catts &LonatZurr, Victimless Leather
JennyHolzer, Lustmord
Ellsworth Kelly, Ground Zero Proposal
Wolfgang Tillmans, Corinne on GloucesterPlace
Michael Schmidt, U-NI-TY
Glenn Ligon, Untitled (I am an invisible man) BarbaraKruger, Untitled(Your Body is abattleground)
Lamia Joreige, Objects of War
Emily Jacir WhereWeCome From RachelHarrison, Voyage of the Beagle
Cecilia Edefalk, Echo
JimmieDurham, Self-Portrait
XS Roni Horn, a.k.a
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Vittorio
John Currin, GirlinBed
Sam Taylor Wood, Thelastcentury
Richard Philips, Spectrum
Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt), Reticularea Cuadrada
Stuart Brisley, BeneathDignity
Thomas Demand, Bathroom
Vija Celmins, Untitled (Ocean)
LeighBowery, Untitled
Huang Yong Ping, The History of ChinesePainting
Thomas Schuette, United Enemies
Cindy Sherman, Untitled
Eduardo Kac, Edunia
Fred Wilson, Mining the Museum
DavidWojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: AMemoirofDisintegration
James Turrell, Sustaining Light
Vija Celmins, BlackboardTableau
Hans Peter Feldmann, Lips
Trisha Donnelly, TheRedwood and the Raven
MarinaAbramovicand Ulay, Imponderabilia
Alighiero Boetti, Map
Allan Sekula, FishStory
Christian Boltanski, La Vie Possible
Christian Boltanski, TheLifeofCB
Harun Farocki, IThought
IWas Seeing Convicts
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Heston Blumenthal, Chocolate factoryfeast
Gerhard Richter, Grey (Grau)
John Chamberlain, Foam Sculptures
Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll
Rebecca Warren, Helmut Crumb
Jim Campbell Digital watch
Sadie Benning, PlayPause
Cerith WynEvans, AgainstNature
Christopher Wool, Untitled
Richard Hamilton, UnorthodoxRendition
Isa Genzken, Fuck theBauhaus
TommaAbts, meko
PawelAlthamer, Self-Portrait
Lynda Benglis, QuarteredMeteor
Hans Haacke, Condensation Cube
Jeff Wall, TheDestroyed Room
Ralph Ellison, InvisibleMan
MarinaAbramovic, Rhythm 0
Josh Smith, Untitled
Gerhard Richter, October 18, 1977
Cady Noland, Oozewald
Jeff Koons, Rabbit
Mary Heilmann, The ThirdMan
Despitethe displaychallenges presentedbycontemporaryart,putting adiversity of artworksindialogue with each other enhances the value of interrelationships and connectivity as aform of learning,offering visitorsdifferentcognitive models with which to reflect on social, political, emotional, and philosophical aspects of life.
Barry XBall, Sleeping Hermaphrodite
Isa Genzken, IloveNew York Crazy City
Rivane Neuenschwander
InvoluntarySculptures(Speech Acts)
On Kawara, Igot up at Luc Tuymans, Gas Chamber
Mike Kelley, More Love Hours
Than Can Ever Be Repaid
Maurizio Cattelan, DynamoSecession AndreaFraser, Untitled 2003
Philip Taaffe, Intersecting Balustrades
Maria Lassnig, Lady in Plastic Ryan Trecartin, AnyEver
RosemarieTrockel, Untitled (Made in Western Germany)
Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy)
Maurizio Cattelan, Him
Huma Bhabha, Bumps in the Road
JanineAntoni, Lick and Lather
Sarah Lucas, Au Naturel
Carl Michaelvon Hausswolff, RedMersey
Mona Hatoum, The Lightatthe End Liam Gillick, The WhatIfScenario
Mark Bradford, Enterand Exit theNew Negro
Andreas Gursky, Siemens, Karlsruhe Martin Kippenberger, Untitled Zoe Leonard, Tree +fence
Thomas Struth, Pergamon Museum Berlin Annie Sprinkle, PublicCervix Announcement
Bruce Nauman, Violentincident
Wolfgang Tillmans, paper drop (gold)
Peter Doig, 100Years Ago
TomFriedman, Untitled
Mark Manders, UnfierdClayFigure
Tania Bruguera, The Burden of Guilt
Steven Parrino, Skeletal Implosion #3 On Kawara, Iwentand Imet
Manfred Kielnhofer, Interlux Chair
Laura Owens, Untitled Kelley Walker, BlackStar Press (Rotated 180 Degrees)
Export Valie, Tapand TouchCinema
Peter Fischli&David Weiss, The waythings go SharonHayes, EverythingElse HasFailed!
Don’t YouThink It’s Time ForLove?
MarinaAbramovic, Rhythm 10 SherrieLevine, La Fortune(afterman ray)
Mark Manders, Inhabited fora Survey (First floorplan…)
Seth Price Dispersion
Lorna Simpson, Guarded Conditions
Louise Bourgeois, Arch of Hysteria ChristianBoltanski, Lessons of Darkness
Dan Flavin, Blueness
RafaelLozano Hemmer, 33 Questions per minute
Mike Kelley, Educational Complex
Charles Ray, Fall ‘91 Dayanita Singh, Senta Letter Michel Majerus, Whatlooksgood today maynot look good tomorrow Adrian Piper, Cornered
Tino Sehgal, Instead of allowing some thing to riseuptoyour face Ai Weiwei, Dropping AHan Dynasty Urn ShirinNeshat, Women Without Men Ernesto Neto, Navedenga Sigmar Polke, Axial Age Ceal Floyer Door Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance Stelarc with Podborsek &Sung, Ear On Arm James Turrell, Roden Crater Cildo Meireles, RedShift KittyKraus, Untitled (Spiegellampe) Linda Montano, 7YearsofLivingArt AngelaBulloch, RGB Spheres
Tracey Emin, IPromise to Love You Rineke Dijkstra, The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL DougAitken, ElectricEarth Olafur Eliasson, Wall Eclipse Stan Douglas, Hors-champs EduardoKac, GFP Bunny Mary Lucier, ThePlainsofSweet Regret NathalieDjurberg, Tiger Licking Girl’sButt Keren Cytter, Four Seasons Olafur Eliasson, Multiple ShadowHouse Eija-LiisaAhtila, TheHouse Leo Villareal, Field Tacita Dean, Disappearance at Sea Chun Yun, Constellation
PascaleMarthineTayou, Game Station
Walid Raad, HostageThe Bachar Tapes
Raphael Lozano Hemmer, Please EmptyYour Pockets
SimonStarling, Wilhelm Noack oHG
Klara Liden, Paralysis
Sarah Morris, Capital
Fiona Tan, SaintSebastian
Ryan Trecartin, I-BEAREA
ShirinNeshat, Turbulent
Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter
Pipilotti Rist, Sip My Ocean
Akram Zaatari, This Day
Olafur Elliasson, Beauty
Walid Raad, TheAtlasGroup Archive
Gonzalez-Dominique Foerster, Beaches
Yang Fudong, Sevenintellectuals in aBamboo Forest
Douglas Gordon& Philippe Parreno, Zidane:Atwenty-first CenturyPortrait
Johan Grimonpraz, dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Isaac Julien, Looking forLangston
William Kentridge, Kistory of the Main Complaint
Mark Leckey, Fiorucci Made me Hardcore
Anri Sala, Intervista
Eija-LiisaAhtila, Okay,MeWe, Gray RodneyGraham, The Phonokinetoscope
Steve McQueen, Bear
Paul Chan, 1stLight
Sarah Sze, Just Now DangledStill
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Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk
Bruce High Quality Foundation, We likeAmerica, America LikesUs
DamienHirst, AThousandYears
MarinaAbramovic, Relation in time
Ryan McNamara &Robert Geller YouCan Dance
Chohreh Feyzdjou, Product of Chohreh Feyzdjou
Kay Hassan, Flight
Simon Starling, Shedboatshed
Thomas Hirschhorn, Bataille-Monument
Roman Ondak, Measuring the Universe On Kawara, One millionyears
ElAnatsui, Dusasa Iand II
Feliz Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Placebo) MarinaAbramovic, Luminosity
Gabriel Orozco, La DS
Matthew Barney CremasterCycle
Carol Bove, TheNightSky Over Berlin, March2,2006,at9pm
Yvonne Rainer, Trio A
YinkaShonibare, HowDoes aGirlLikeYou GetToBeaGirl Like You
Leandro Erlich, Swimming Pool (2008)
Hans Haacke–Blue Sail
Paul McCarthy, BossyBurger
RichardArtschwager Untitled ChantalAkerman, From the East
Artur Zmijewski, Democracies
Nairy Baghramian, La Lampe dans l’horloge
Monica Bonvicini, IBelieve in the Skin of Things as in thatofWoman
Chris Ofili, The Upper Room
Hans Peter Feldmann, 100 Years CerithWyn Evans &Throbbing Gristle, A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N
Christodoulos Panayiotou, Wonder Land
Pierre Huyghe, TheThirdMemory
CerithWyn Evans, Joanna (ChapterOne) Douglas Gordon, 24 Hour Psycho GillianWearing, Drunk LygiaPape, WebI,C
Cildo Meireles, Mission/Missions (howtobuild cathedrals)
Anthony McCall, Youand IHorizontal Gary Hill, Tall Ships Feng Mengbo, Long MarchRestart Dieter Roth, Solo Scenes
RirkritTiravanija, untitled 1992 (free) Gregor Schneider, TotesHaus ur
L Roni Horn, OppositeofWhite
Tobias Rehberger, SevenEnds of the World MatthewBarney Chrysler Imperial Kara Walker, Gone An HistoricalRomance
Ayse Erkmen, Sculptures on Air
Robert Gober, Untitled SheelaGowda, And Tell Him og My Pain
Richard Deacon, RedSea Crossing Ed Ruscha, The&Now CarlAndre, Lamentfor the Children Urs Fischer, You Hans Haacke, Germania
Carsten Hoeller &RosemarieTrockle, AHouse forPigs and People
Haegue Yang, Sadong 30 Alfredo Jaar, The Sound of Silence
DamianOrtega, CosmicThing LaraAlmarcegui, Bauschutt
Hauptraum Secession
Jeff Koons, Puppy
MicolAssael, Chizhevsky Lessons
KutlugAtaman, Kueba
David Fischli &PeterWeiss Visible World
Francesco Vezzoli, BalletsRusses Italian Style
Sebastian Diaz Morales, TheMeans of Illusion
Christian Marclay, The Clock
Bruce Nauman, World Peace
Spencer Finch, Sunset(South Texas6/11/03)
MarinaAbramovic, SevenEasyPieces
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John Chamberlain, Privet
Nancy Spero, Blackand the RedIII
Rachel Whiteread, House
Renata Lucas, Crossing
Mark Rothko, Untitled
Anish Kapoor, Svayambh
Jenny Holzer, Projections
DouglasGordon, Play Dead, Real Time
Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out
PierreHuyghe&PhilippeParreno, No GhostJustAShell
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Gerhard Richter, Cologne CathedralWindow
Allora &Calzadilla, Stop, Repair,Prepare MarinaAbramovic, TheArtistinPresent
Cornelia Parker, Perpetual Canon
La Monte Young &MarianZazeela, Dream House
Doug &MikeStarn, BigBambu
Guggenheim Museum, YouTubePlay
Andrea Fraser Museum HighlightsaGallery Talk
The Serpentine Garden, Sanaa Pavilion
MiroslawBalka, How It Is
Robert Morris, Bodyspacemotionthings
Ai Weiwei, SunflowerSeeds
Rachel Whiteread, Embankment
Olafur Elliasson, The Weather Project
Doris Salcedo, Shibboleth
PawelAlthamer, Brodno 2000
The Land Foundation, the land
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FrancisAlys, The Loop
Ai Weiwei, Fairytale
Implicit in the word ‘contemporary’ is the idea of ‘existing at thesame time as the other’,orofbeing dialogical rather than monological.
Valueengineering throughout thefirstyear of design includes searching forstrategiesthatwouldsavespace Cooper,who has been working on the stair,tests the idea of moving one of the egress stairsunder the public stair
59 Public Stair Geometryand Configuration Years2–5
The resulting double-decker stair invertsthe typical linearity associatedwith stairsina waythatisreminiscent of the double-helix spiral stair (the ‘Bramante staircase’) of the Vatican Museums, whichseparatesvisitorswho are ascending from those who aredescending.
The shade of blue which has been selected forthe fire-resistantpaint–Blazer Blue–turns out to be toolight when applied on site. The entirespace is repaintedinNightBlue, ablue which is ashade darker
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roofing system
Ventedstainless steel exterior panel coping
Rigid insulation –R-20value
Structural concrete over acoustically insulatedmetal deck
Stainless steel rainscreen system
Mineral wool insulation
Waterproof underlayer
Structural steel framing with fire-resistantpaint
Structural metal decking
Curtain wall window: dry-jointsysteminsulatedglazing unit
Structuralconcrete over metal deck
Even-flowlow-pressureair-distribution
Lightweightconcrete infill Floor grille
Curtain wall spandrel
The envelope is designed as aventedrainscreen overstructural steel decking, which acts in combination with the framing of the superstructuretocreate arigid skin. Thedecking and the frame of the superstructure, both exposed, arepaintedwithblue fire-resistantpaint.
