David Adjaye Designs New Home for Studio Museum

摘要

To ring in its 50th anniversary, the Studio Museum in Harlem has unveiled the design for a new home by architect David Adjaye. "[This project] is about a powerful urban resonance, drawing on the architectural tropes of Harlem and celebrating the history and culture of this extraordinary neighborhood," Adjaye said. The Studio Museum, founded in 1958, is one of the most important institutions for contemporary African American art. In order to keep pace with the evolving Harlem neighborhood and to expand its programming, the museum trustees opted to tear down its existing facili-ty-a 19th-century building renovated by the late African American architect J. Max Bond Jr.-with an entirely new one. They unanimously chose London-based Adjaye and Associates after an international search last year.