(Re)Programming - Museums

This interdisciplinary course examines how institutional clients and designers can develop skills to jointly create (space) programs for buildings for the 21st century. Students examine the value of hybrid institutions, and the change in museum directions over the last 150 years. They analyze briefs and space programs for existing museum and cultural buildings; meet with museum professionals, trend forecasters, data analysts, negotiation experts and architects; and we visit three case study museums in NYC. The final project entrails the development of a design brief for a new museum in NYC.