The Victoria and Albert Museum
In the economic age of “new sobriety,” architecture can be freed from the struggle between form and function by emphasizing performance instead—a hybrid that doesn’t discriminate between program, organization, and form. The measure of performance is relative to each project’s constraints and aspirations. The V&A at Dundee’s vision exacts sophisticated demands: it must serve as a key driver in Dundee’s new Central Waterfront Masterplan, inhabit a challenging site, embody best sustainable practices, adhere strictly to budget, and most importantly, exhibit and incubate design. By eschewing convention and doggedly searching for responses specific to these particular demands, an unexpected and iconographic building will emerge that is the embodiment of performance, not a symbol of excess
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