SANAA, THE 21ST CENTURY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, KANAZAWA 2004
"is like a prototypical diagram of the ideal contemporary art museum: an iconic enclosure containing “white cube” galleries of various sizes, with secondary functions in the interstices. The architecture itself is reduced to the fewest possible tectonic elements, comprising flat surfaces with a minimum of articulation at their junctions." T. Daniell, 2005
"the circle - the model based on the concept of a chain of islands or an urban space." Advisory Board Members, 2004
"Everyone is an artist." J. Beuys, 1970
"20th century Modernism was driven by the three M's of ‘Man’, ‘Money’ and ‘Materialism’. With the replacement of these three M's with the three C's of ‘Consciousness’, ‘Collective Intelligence’ and ‘Co-existence’, new forms of expression are now beginning to make their appearance. The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is an enormous catalytic ‘device’, the purpose of which is to convey the ‘psychological products’ of these three C's to visitors, to ensure their effect and to revitalize everyone that comes into contact with the museum." Advisory Board Members, 2004
"The transparent corridors that offer a clear view of the entire museum space encourage ‘coexistence’ in which individuals remain autonomous while sharing personal space with others." Advisory Board Members, 2004
"The resources of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa to become a 'device' that can transcend a non-Western perspective focusing on values that are different from Western modernism, instead committing to a deep and strong involvement with society and the world at large while continuing to generate different values are about to be verified." Advisory Board Members, 2004
