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The New Acropolis Museum: A Triumph of Sophistry
21 September, 2009The Acropolis Museum fails its context on multiple levels, persisting with exhausted clichés like ‘visual connection’ and abstract conceptions to justify architectural decisions that let everyone and everything down once actually experienced. (by Dr Alexandra Stara)
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Architectural cannibalism in Athens
23 July, 2009Nikos Salingaros is a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. As an architectural theorist and Athenian, he writes about the New Acropolis Museum and takes part in the debate on the demolition of the two protected historical buildings on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street. According to his own theories, the museum building is a priori destructive, because its architect relies upon the deconstructivist movement.”
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