Graduating Student, Sif Lindblad
The Cave Replacing the Cube: Considering Asger Jorn and Jørn Utzon’s 1964 un-realized museum through the lens of Critical Regionalism
Jørn Utzon, Silkeborg Museum, 1964
Working with the archive of museum Jorn in Denmark, graduating student Sif Lindblad’s thesis project is researching the proposal for a museum to house danish artist Asger Jorn’s collection; a proposal that Jorn did in collaboration with architect Jørn Utzon. Her thesis is touching upon the unusual aspect of having an artist as a commissioner for his own museum -and the creative as well as political potential in such a collaboration as a collective resistance to the current establishment of modernism.
Asger Jorn, Untitled, 1954
This in using architect and architecture critic Kenneth Frampton theory of a critical regionalism in which Frampton proposes an architecture with a critical consciousness—one that can engender a specific sense of self by attending to universal cultural elements as well as to the specifics of place—to shed new light on the museum proposal as well as to try to grasp how come it was never realised.