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Location: Mönchengladbach, Germany
Build: 1976-82Illustration: Madalena Boavida Guerra‚ based on axonometric by Hans Hollein
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For this museum, which was Hans Hollein’s first, he designed not just the building but all aspects of the interior design – from wall panelling to lighting to furniture: a gesamtkunstwerk in the spirit of early Viennese modernism.
Internally, as opposed to a classical enfilade of galleries, its radical cross-connecting spaces were developed in response to the fluid curatorial concept of director John Cladders. Externally it does not have a single traditional monumental “museum” form but is bedded down into the landscape of the city, its elevated position on a hill softened by stepped landscaping inspired by rice terraces, whilst its tower and sandstone cladding echo that of the cathedral and local parish church, and the gallery “shed” forms reference the textile factory buildings of a city once known as the “Rhenish Manchester”.
(rgw)Photo © Marlies Darsow, courtesy Hans Hollein archive
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