bachelor thesis

in Architectural Design Bsc

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who

Antonia Razza, Lucrezia Rossi

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when
september 2017

 

'L’Italia possiede la maggior parte delle ricchezze artistiche del pianeta; dopo di noi viene la Spagna e non arriva ad accumulare i tesori della Toscana. Ma anche questo, salvo eccezioni, ha smesso di eccitarci.'

Giuseppe Severgnini

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The dissertation deals with the relationship between three distinct worlds: the architecture one, as art of building, the archeology one, as the science of antiquities and the museography one as a multidisciplinary area of knowledge transmission through the techniques of exhibition.

While archeology depends on architecture in terms of origins, museography translates architecture’s forms into figurative narrative, placing between them as a “bridge discipline”, as a place of convergence of mutual interests, those linked to valorization, conservation and protection of the heritage, as a legacy to perpetuate.

Aside from a premise on the description of the discipline details, the starting point of the dissertation is the heritage in its relation to the present (and the future) with regard to the design of architecture, which is deeply connected to its physical integrit and organizes the cognitive aspects with educational and cultural goals.

Museography works mostly through performance of visual communication, articulable on multiple layers of heritage involvement - mainly in the aspect of the relationship between original-authentic and representation - and on different models of deploymentof the same through the mediation of the exhibition, as the form of exhibition.

In this framework, three exhibition models, the model of absence, the model of redundancy and the model of the ephemeral, were compared and analyzed in their application, and a series of case studies, considered as examples of the achievements of the last thirty, fourthy years: the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida by Rafael Moneo, the project of Musealization of the archaeological site of Praça Nova in Lisbon by Carrilho Da Graça, the Neues Museum in Berlin by David Chipperfield, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens by Bernard Tschumi and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London by Francis Fowke.