A museum, ... is a place where one should lose one's head -- and I hope you will lose it. |
because the center of the composition is not a building, but an empty space. |
My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings. |
Now this is the fourth layer. |
The north hill is devoted to Paul Klee the musician and teacher, the central hill to the painter and poet and the south hill to the researcher and mathematician. |
We chose steel and extra wide panels of glass, which is almost like crystal. These are honest materials that create the right sense of strength and clarity between old and new, as well as a sense of transparency in the center of the institution that opens the campus up to the street. |