Richard Meier: Ara Pacis Museum opened in Rome
The Ara Pacis Museum (opened yesterday by the Roman authorities) and the Church of the Millennium are the works of Richard Meier, who along with other projects (and of Fuksas Hadid) you are changing the architectural profile of Rome, which for a long time respect both to its architectural heritage in recent major projects dating from the period of Fascist Rome in the 20s, when Mussolini launched an ambitious plan constructive.
The architecture critic of the newspaper Los Angeles Times used a phrase of English philosopher Isaiah Berlin to describe the architectural phenomenon that is happening in Rome: "The past is something that only lives when our blood injected into their veins drained. The phrase accurately reflects the general view of the public and experts on the effect they are creating these new works in the architecture of the Italian capital.
The museum was built on the Ara Pacis, or "Altar of Peace ', a small white marble temple erected by Emperor Augustus the year 13 BC to honor the peace achieved in Gaul and Spain. The project is located along the river Tiber, was delayed in 7 years to be built and the building above, conducted by Vittorio Morpurgo Balli in 1938, retains only a wall of marble. The materials used by the American architect were mainly glass, travertine marble and concrete.
Reading a blog about this building I found an excellent example of the evil they suffered several architects, such as "talking a lot without saying anything. Hence, this phrase taken from mentioning the official Meier:
The location of the site has particular characteristics due to its outstanding historical, archeological and architectural values, and requires a process of enhancement and a level of quality that will ensure the approval from the Italian and the international architectural communities, as well as from the general public.
