The Rodin Museum, Seoul by Mario Gandelsonas, Kohn Pederson Fox, Ruth Butler

By Mario Gandelsonas, Kohn Pederson Fox, Ruth Butler

The Rodin Museum in Seoul, Korea, designed by way of Kohn Pedersen Fox to deal with sculptures through Auguste Rodin, has been hailed as an architectural tour-de-force. Its undulating partitions, totally made up of translucent glass, create a jewel like, serene area some distance faraway from the bustle of the Seoul enterprise district, as an alternative making a position that blurs the diversities among West and East, among paintings and trade, and among the nineteenth and the 21th century. This publication outlines the artistic layout strategy, from perception via consciousness, focused on growing this strange museum. It contains a number of preparatory sketches, special technical drawings of the complicated steel and glass wall procedure, and colour pictures of the completed constitution.

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The Burghers of Calais monument was inaugurated in Calais in 1895. The next cast, commissioned by Carl Jacobsen in 1903, is in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. , Pasadena, California, and New York City.

The answer lies in a unique convergence of circumstances. When the Republican government commissioned Rodin to make a set of bronze doors for a new museum of decorative arts, it never occurred to him that the museum would go unbuilt and that he might never see his doors installed in a public space. But as the decades passed and it became clear that the doors were going nowhere beyond the entrance of his own studio, Rodin was increasingly intrigued by his plaster model. He became attached to it; it was his companion.

The next cast, commissioned by Carl Jacobsen in 1903, is in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. , Pasadena, California, and New York City.

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