Contemporary Musing, Time Forgotten

The half-day excursion from the nearest city of Hangzhou to the Liangzhu Museum is highly worthwhile.  The architecture designed by Sir David Chipperfield is an excellent example of modernity blended with cultural sensitivity.  The exhibition contents make an eye-opening experience of a lost civilization.  His following comments effectively encapsulate the diverging parameters of different domains.  “Since it is a museum, and is an exploratory environment, we want to create a sequence of indoor and outdoor spaces that would take visitors on a journey through the ancient culture.  The reference to Chinese courtyards relieves the linear route while referring to architectural traditions.”