Museum Configurations - An Inquiry Into the Design of Spatial Syntaxes

Museum Configurations demonstrates how museum space functions cognitively and communicatively and questions whether it can be designed to provide a rich embodied experience, situating displays and their public in felicitous dialogue.

List of contents

1. Museums as spatial configurations; 2. The dialectic of the enlightenment museum: Edifice, edification, and dissolution; 3. Movement, visibility, and the states of museum experience; 4. Intelligibility and the structures of freedom; 5. A stimulating museum space: 'Glancing away' and engaging working memory in-between exhibits; 6. Narrative, dramaturgy and spatial choreography: movement and subjectivity in museum configurations; 7. Spacing collections. Space syntax and a museum yet to come; 8. Navigating museum space: Mapping, syntax, and metaphor; 9. Designing the syntax of museum space in the studio; 10. Postscript: What more can museum architecture do?.

About the author

John Peponis is Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Summary

Museum Configurations demonstrates how museum space functions cognitively and communicatively and questions whether it can be designed to provide a rich embodied experience, situating displays and their public in felicitous dialogue.

Product details

• Authors: John (Professor of Architecture At the Ge Peponis
• Assisted by: John Peponis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032486369
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248636-9
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ART / Museum Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Theory of architecture, Design;Museum;Spatial syntax