Chapter 2 of 37
The Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art, Kansas City, USA, 2007
In the rules of the competition were that you were to add on to the north of a 1937 neoclassical building, quite a predominant building, two hundred and forty thousand square feet and all the competitors were required to add; the rules were you were to add on to the north of this building, and bring in parking, a new entrance and new gallery spaces. And we went to the site, and I studied everything and I decided to break the rules; I decided that that wasn't the right way to add on to this building; in fact, I thought you should leave all the existing stone elevations intact, and not add against any one of the facades. Instead, to make a new building fused with the landscape, and cascade down the sculpture garden and make a real deep connection between exterior landscape and interior, and the original building.