MACBA – Barcelona Art Museum

R. Meier – Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona Spain, 1992-1995

A large museum of glass and white aluminum fills the Raval neighborhood with light and houses works from the mid-14.000th century to the present day. The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) has meant the realization of two dreams: to bring together contemporary art collections in a single space in the style of the MoMA in New York and to give the Raval neighborhood light, air, open public spaces and a heart. In addition to being a contemporary art museum, the MACBA is an impressive building by architect Richard Meier, who has opened a diaphanous and luminous space of XNUMX square meters in one of the most traditional and historic neighborhoods of Barcelona.

Meier himself stated that the Raval was his nadir, when, in the late 80s, the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Pasqual Maragall, commissioned him to design a museum that would be the central element of the master plan for the redevelopment of the Raval neighborhood, which also included the redevelopment of the Casa da Caridad, transformed into the current CCCB. Meier's modern and rationalist building, declared a museum of national interest by the Government of Catalonia, was inaugurated in 1995 in the Plaça dels Àngels, right in front of the peaceful Gothic Convent of the Angels. The sobriety of the convent contrasts with the clarity of the museum, made of white aluminum, glass, metal and reflective elements. Meier also designed the new Plaça dels Àngels, a large open space that merges with the museum through the use of ramps and skylights that let in light.
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