Yi Wang

Confluent Possibility

A collision of the planar and the curvilinear and a total imposition of a monolithic block on the northern facade bounding Via Masaccio (with distinct overtones of the Gallateresse) locks off any one single view of the MAXXI as object. Instead, this gesture creates a condition where the singularity of the museum as formal expression is intersected, subsumed within, and exists alongside the uncanny interventions of Wang’s MAXXI proposal.

Whilst very much in tune with the conceptual bases of Rossi, the intersections between the existing museum, and Wang’s new museum, suggests the continuing relevance of his transhistorical, omnipresent architecture that stems from, and contributes to, a reading of the city.

The unclear nature of this combinatory architecture allows a complex reading without a clear outcome, the new architecture is subsumed into the continuing history of the existing, separate, but inextricably bound, to the MAXXI.

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-Review (excerpt) by Jacob Komarzynski