YSOA (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Recently, I got a job to conduct the First Year Digital Prototyping & Frabrication Workshop. It was a short 5 days intensive 10am -6pm workshop, where through out this phase, it give the first years an opportunity to learn and communicate their ideas through digital modelling and frabrication. Approximately, there were about 7 of us tutors where each of us had our own group of students. I had 2...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Anthony Snodgrass – Chair of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles responds to Simon Jenkins’s earlier article about the New Acropolis Museum. From: The Guardian Letters New home for the Parthenon marbles The Guardian, Tuesday 27 October 2009 I know that Simon Jenkins is fundamentally on the same side as I am, and I’m sure it [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Since its opening a few months ago, the New Acropolis Museum has become the strongest argument for the reunification of the surviving Parthenon Marbles in one place, raising their international profile, at the same time as making the case for their return even clearer. You can listen to this original radio broadcast here. From: WBUR (Boston) Greece Unveils Museum [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The Architectural Record argues that the New Acropolis Museum represents the most powerful case yet for the reunification of all the surviving Parthenon Sculptures in Athens. From: Architectural Record New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece Bernard Tschumi Architects presents a case for bringing the Elgin Marbles back to Athens in its design for the New Acropolis Museum. By Suzanne Stephens After all...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
I know that Simon Jenkins is fundamentally on the same side as I am, and I'm sure it wasn't he who chose to put that offensive phrase in his headline ( A banana republic police HQ maybe, but not a home for the Elgin marbles , 23 October). But his piece did contain more than its fair share of anti-Greek prejudice. The Greeks were "foolish" to turn down the offer of a loan of the Elgin marbles...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The New York Review of Books, our content partner, Is teasing its new site by giving us a peak at their brand new blog section today. As usual it is filled with fabulous authors and great thinkers: Charles Rosen, Martin Filler, Jonathan Freedland, Jonathan Raban, Stephen Greenblatt, Istvan Deak, Perry Link, Garry Wills, and Ronald Dworkin. Read excerpts from their pieces below, and see what Arianna...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
For many years, one of the excuses for the British Museum’s retention of the Parthenon Sculptures was that there was no suitable place in Greece to put them. This has now been solved by the completed Acropolis Museum which continues to receive overwhelmingly positive reviews. From: National Post Saturday, October 3, 2009 Ready For The Return The impressive new Acropolis [...]
boiteaoutils (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
L'enjeu Capital(es) Les métropoles de la grande échelle A huge event on October 1st and 2nd will take place at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Including the following personalities who will take part of 2 hours debats : Pier Vittorio Aureli (DOGMA), Peter Eisenman, Luca Galofaro (IaN+), Vittorio Gregotti et Bernard Tschumi . Andrea Branzi, Adriaan Geuze (West 8), Neven Sidor (Grimshaw...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
New Acropolis Museum architect Bernard Tschumi talks about the aims of the project and how it was designed to hold the Elgin Marbles. Listen audiovisual presentation at Pidgeon Digital.
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
‘It is Greek because it is ecumenical.’ With this grandiose statement and the inevitable assertion of Greece’s claim to the Elgin marbles, Greece’s Minister of Culture opened the new Acropolis Museum in June. The museum is a magnificent exhibit in itself. Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi has taken columns, rectangles and triangles and presented them in a stunning mixture of...
Information Processing (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
I'm off to Athens and Crete next week. The main purpose of the trip is to attend a meeting on quantum gravity, but I'm also looking forward to visiting this new museum: See also this slideshow . Now that they have an appropriate place for them, will the Greeks get the Elgin Marbles back from the British? NYTimes : ... For more than 30 years, Greece has been working, through diplomacy and public relations...
Elginism (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Few who have visited the New Acropolis Museum in Athens can deny the powerful argument that it represents for the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures. The British Museum’s response however is to continue ignoring the issue & pretending it will go away, claiming that the opening of the new museum does not change anything. From: Sydney Morning [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
Whilst the British Museum insists that the New Acropolis Museum changes nothing in the battle for the battle for the return of the Elgin Marbles, most commentators tend to disagree. It is not the only museum built to potentially returned artefacts either, as the Egyptians are also building a new Grand Museum of Egypt with [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
The New Acropolis Museum is an entirely modern architectural solution, but it respects the ancient buildings that it relates to, while never trying to compete against them. From: San Francisco Chronicle New Acropolis Museum looks forward, honors past Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic Sunday, August 9, 2009 Designing a museum figures nowadays as a rite of passage in the careers of [...]
Elginism (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
The Parthenon was originally a religious monument although this meaning of it has been largely lost, being displaced by the building’s position as a national (& international) icon. Religion regularly comes back into its story though – both throughout the history of the building (which was also a church & a mosque) & has recently [...]
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