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Vitra Design MuseumCharles-Eames-Straße 1
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Wikipedia http://www.welt.de
Herzog & De Meuron: http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=799 Herzog & de Meuron write about their design: "The VitraHaus uses directly the archetype of the house, that one encounters everywhere in the world. By stacking, pressing, and extruding ­ all mechanical procedures that are applied in industrial operations - connects the simple House-form to a complex image where inside and outside overlap." The suggestion that the architecture is connected to the production of Vitra furniture is powerful. (...) After browsing through the collection of Vitra there is one furniture-designer that in an almost theatrical way demonstrates the industrial themes of extruding and stacking, and that is Frank Gehry. The theme of pressing emerges in the 'Algue' product ­ a plastic rhizome-form of a two decimeters square that can be pressed together to create curtains. (...) (...) The design by Herzog & de Meuron does also relate to the adjacent museum-building of by Frank Gehry, whose form-language already features 'stacking', 'pressing', and 'extruding', and which building is also white. The new Herzog & de Meuron building is therefore highly contextual. (...)(...) If the work of Herzog & de Meuron is connected to that of the Campana brothers, their work is also connected to nature and further on to the Baroque. Architect Erick van Egeraat already claims that by representing natural patterns (of a rock or a tree) he can make a Baroque architecture .(...)"
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