SANAA’s New Museum leaves me with a bigger question, too. Is there anything left to be squeezed out of minimalism? After Donald Judd built his boxes and, in the process, transformed our understanding of space and the role of our own bodies in creating and recreating it, what can we learn from more Judd-like boxes? To put it in architectural terms, after Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created minimalist lofts for art, as in the New National Gallery in Berlin, do we really need more paeans to his vision?

Stopped Making Sense

by Sarah Williams Goldhagen

I really enjoyed reading Goldhagen’s review for The New Republic on SANAA’s New Museum in New York. I haven’t been to the space yet, but I thought that she wrote an article which addresses issues which I constantly think about when I read reviews of buildings. Read the opening paragraph in particular - what is the role of an architecture critic? 

Also loved her closing (partially quoted above).

What is left to do with minimalism? I don’t know the answer, but I like how the question makes me think.