Architecture Salon| The Future in the Past: Interpretation and Representation of Architecture

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In 2006, the Taiwan Museum opened a collection program for the collection of classic drawings of post-World War II buildings in Taiwan, which collected information from 56 architects or organizations from the 1950s to the 1990s. For years, architectural scholars have called for the collection of this architectural data as soon as possible and for the establishment of a national architectural museum. In 2012, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Taiwan Museum and the Taiwan Museum Cultural Foundation jointly promoted a program to promote knowledge about the history of Taiwan and prepare for the establishment of the Taiwan Architecture Museum. Against this background, when architecture meets the boundaries of museology, the museum community needs a new mindset to look at new members, and architecture needs a new perspective as it enters new fields. In particular, buildings that are considered valuable today are to be designated as tangible cultural assets, as heritage and sustainability of value. Under the logic of the operation in the field of literature, do we still need an architectural museum, and what is the mission and mission of an architectural museum? Can you highlight the value of architecture in museology? And how should architectural knowledge be interpreted or translated? These are the inevitable questions of preparing an architectural museum. It is hoped that through visits and exhibitions by continental institutions, we would like to share the current situation and possibilities of architectural exhibitions and institutions in Taiwan.

This talk was first presented by Shen Mengying, Executive Secretary of the Taiwan Museum Foundation, to discuss the results of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums (ICAM) in 2022, as well as the status of the collections and exhibitions of architectural museums/centres in Germany, Switzerland and France. Jiang Yajun, Assistant Professor of the Department of Architecture at Chung Yuan University, will say, “Action in Taiwan! Architecture in Conversation with Society” Curated in Munich and Prague, focusing on the “Building Community-ing” module in the exhibition, using ten moving cases (South Airport Community, Maple Community, Keelung Mass Community Planning, New Hometown Cultural Foundation and Tomei Community, Wuwu Community, Renewed Old Street Life Story Museum, Zhushan Town Cultural Arts, Hualien County Niyu Pei Community Exchange Association, Taitung Children's Book House, Bunon. Back home: Jiaxin stone slab house, etc.) Reproduce and transmit the vitality and creativity of Taiwan's grassroots community. In the final section, Zhang Boyun, who is currently studying a master's degree at the Mendrisio Institute of Architecture, Switzerland, shared the inspiring architectural spaces and architectural practice experiences of Swiss architects Peter Zumthor, Valerio Olgiati, Peter Märkli, etc., in “Spatial Experience and Ceremonial”.