LETTERS

摘要

I write regarding this year's RIBA Stirling Prize, which was awarded to David Chipperfield Architects for its Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, Germany. I have no difficulty with the judges' decision. However, in a world where everything goes, and where architectural styles and languages are frequently mixed up, we do at least expect those who have risen to the level of such prizes to remember a little history. At the presentation dinner on Saturday, the influence of Nazi architecture on the museum was cited, and even Chipperfield himself failed to correct this misinterpretation. It would have been more correct to admit that the building drew extensively on those marvellous examples of Italian rationalist architecture that appeared under the Fascists. Yet, no one mentioned Adalberto Libera, Giuseppe Terragni, Marcello Piacentini or even the theories of Eduardo Persico.