Getty to Conduct Workshop on Conservation of Le Corbusier’s Only Three Museums
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The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) along with Foundation Le Corbusier, Paris will be conducting a workshop for the maintenance and architectural conservation of the only three museums designed by Le Corbusier. The workshop will take place in India — hom
Getty to Conduct Workshop on Conservation of Le Corbusier’s Only Three Museums
The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) along with Foundation Le Corbusier, Paris will be conducting a workshop for the maintenance and architectural conservation of the only three museums designed by Le Corbusier. The workshop will take place in India — home to two of the three museums — and will be hosted by the municipal corporations from Chandigarh and Ahmedabad. The third museum is in Tokyo, Japan.Designed in the 1950s and 60s, the three museums — Government Museum and Art Gallery in Chandigarh, India, Sanskar Kendra Museum in Ahmedabad, India, and National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, Japan — are examples of Le Corbusier’s concept of a «museum of unlimited growth,» which allows for future expansion. Similar in form, size, and floor plan, the three museums sit on Corbusier’s trademark ‘pilotis.’«By asking the museum participants to consider what is significant about their respective museums as individual buildings and as part of the larger collected work of a great architect, each can better develop the necessary conservation policies to care for these significant buildings and their important collections,» says Susan Macdonald, head of Buildings and Sites at the GCI, as noted by ArchDaily. Read more
