Two Museums (2014)

Release Date: 2014-01-22
Runtime: 0h 17min
Production Company: Filmgalerie 451
Production Country: Israel, United States of America
Director: Heinz Emigholz

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, built by Renzo Piano (b. 1937) 1986 . The method of natural lighting in Bickels‘s construction was the direct model for Piano, who adopted for his construction at the request of its patroness Dominique de Menil.