Blending Heritage and Modernity in Museography: Reviving Le Corbusier’s Legacy through Printmaking and Sustainable Interior Design | ||||
| المجلة الدولية للتصاميم والبحوث التطبيقية | ||||
| Volume 4, Issue 15, July 2025 | ||||
| Document Type: الدراسات والبحوث التطبيقية. | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijdar.2025.416308.1038 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
شيماء خضير  1; Amira Hamdy El.Sayed Abdou2
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| 1كلية الفنون الجميلة جامعة الاسكندرية | ||||
| 2Décor Department, Faculty of Arts and Design, Pharos University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The Museum of Fine Arts in Alexandria is among the most important museums related to the art in Egypt and regards both modern and contemporary art. The interior architecture of it however fails to deliver on the immersive, narrative and experiential potential of the space that is dedicated to the ideal of modernism. Although it has a curatorial vision, the overall interior the museum has today is still lacks sustainable incorporation through the interior, whether in the choice of materials and adaptability of design itself to be environmentally friendly in museographic aspect. Also, the fact that the same permanent collection is held in both central and temporary exhibition halls dilutes the possibility of the space to develop and refer to the innovative curatorial work. This is a contradiction of the modernist brief that the museum ideally tackles that is accepting change, modular and interpretative. In order to fill these gaps, the study takes the perspective of descriptive-analytical approach supported mixed-methodology and engages a design-based intervention based on modernist meditations of space by Le Corbusier, especially the concepts of abstraction, proportion, modularity and the color theory, combined with sustainable measures of interior planning and print-based graphic interventions. The current study depends on five related theoretical frameworks, Curatorial Design, Phenomenology of Space, Semiotics of Space, Visual Semiotics, and Visual Semiotics. Collectively, such lenses shift the perception of the museum interior into a construction and a conveying platform. Through proposing these two intertwined visions of Print-making and Interior Design, the study will enhance the museum as an incubator of cultural perpetuation, design exploration, and eco-friendly Museographic display. It relocates museography in the state of a communication device where visual language obtains an erasure of the demarcation with utilitarian purpose. The results of the study are pertinent to the discussion of functional aesthetics and materiality of print and visual communication of interior spaces in architecture. The outcomes are essential to keep up the current debate over functional aesthetics, print media, spatial storytelling, and can prove valuable to scholars, designers, architects, educators, and theorists working in the area of graphic design and interior design. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Le Corbusier; Museum of Fine Arts in Alexandria; sustainable design; multidisciplinary collaboration; modernist abstraction | ||||
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