Published: 2024-12-17

The Albert Kahn Museum in Paris as a model of a museum rooted in the city

Barbara Stec
Journal of Urban Ethnology
Section: A city in a museum - a museum in a city
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE22.2024.008

Abstract

The article presents the Albert Kahn Museum in Paris as a model of a museum rooted in the city. The features of rooted architecture as based on the architectural concept proposed by Kengo Kuma are identified and the Albert Kahn Museum is discussed in the aspect of these features, indicating the connections linking the museum as a coherent whole of architecture and gardens with the city: its environment, the Boulogne-Billancourt district with its genius loci, the socio-cultural spaces. They create an intense and multilateral network of relationships that shape the contemporary development of the museum, its architecture and its program.

Keywords:

rooted architecture, museum-engawa, garden, city, genius loci

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Stec, B. (2024). The Albert Kahn Museum in Paris as a model of a museum rooted in the city. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 22, 123–141. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE22.2024.008

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