Peachy the Magazine October/November 2013 | Page 34

The Millennial Shift in Museum Design
No one would expect Dallas-Fort
Worth to neglect the cultural impetus
to build spectacular museums in the
millennial mode, and there are actually several that must be considered
as nothing less than remarkable: the
Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas
designed by Renzo Piano, The Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth designed
by Tadao Ando, and the Renzo Piano
addition to the Kimbell Art Museum
in Fort Worth. While not in the avant
garde vein of the ICA or the Kunsthaus
Graz, these museums are minimalist

stunners designed by Pritzker prize
winning architects.
Renzo Piano, who is also currently
working on the much anticipated
move of the Whitney Museum of
American Art from the staid Upper
East Side to the hipster haven and
High Line-loving Meatpacking district
in Manhattan, was commissioned by
Raymond Nasher to create a museum
and garden for the Dallas benefactor’s
world renown collection of sculpture.
Nasher was courted by many leading
museums, including the National

The center pavillion of the Nasher Sculpture Center. Photo by Jeff Stvan, Diorama
Sky. 2008. Via Flickr.
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