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Arquitectura Viva 123 MUSEOS CIUDADANOS

City Museums. Elements of physical and symbolic integration, museums thread the fabric of our cities and our collective imaginary. A first article defends the construction of shared discourses instead of ideological divisions; whereas the two following ones analyze the origin of two projects that have a unifying purpose: a jagged roof that is superimposed to the remains of a castle in the old East Germany reconciling past, present and future of the country; and a workshop oriented towards the northern light that custodies the established canon of the masterpieces of Dutch art.

Urban Exhibition. Aside from performing as effective tools to revitalize cultural life, museums continue to perform as a means to regenerate the cities in which they rise. Four projects of clear urban calling shape four historical cores in Spain: an art center arranges its multipurpose program through a system of chained courtyards that connect two areas located at different heights in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; the discovery of the remains of a Roman theater inspires the design of an exhibition itinerary that links several buildings in Cartagena; a hermetic cube traversed by prisms of light reproduces in the heart of Vitoria the cumulative density of archaeology; and a block of stone and glass accommodates the extension of a heterogeneous museum located in the sensitive historical environment of Pontevedra.