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Admirably perverse: tectonic expression and the puzzles of Galerie Goetz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2010

Peter Blundell Jones
Peter Blundell Jones
Affiliation:
Arts Tower, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, [email protected]
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The Galerie Goetz is a small art gallery built between 1989 and 1992, one of the early works of Herzog & de Meuron which helped to win them such commissions as Tate Modern and launched their spectacular international career. At first sight this box-like building standing at the far end of a villa garden in a Munich suburb seems rather dead-pan and understated: from the street [2] you register only the upper floor, a box measured out in five bays, for the ground level is perfectly obscured by the garden fence, an apparently banal element carefully remade by the architects.

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criticism
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 13 , Issue 3-4 , December 2009 , pp. 220 - 230
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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