Museum Folkwang David Chipperfield Architects

摘要

On his death bed, Reyner Banham, our finest critic, made one last attempt to understand architecture. There is a marked difference, he said, between the good design' of Christopher Wren and the 'absolute architecture' of John Soane. 'What is it that architects uniquely do?' he asked, wary that the discipline was a black box quandary, recognised only by its output but with contents unknown. "Ihe answer, alas, is they do architecture, and we are thus back at the black box with which we began.'