Eliding Extraction, Embracing Novelty: The Spatio-Temporal Configuration of Natural History

摘要: Natural history museums present fertile ground for considering material configurations of “nature” and “history.” This essay analyzes the History Museum Utah at Rio Tinto Center (NHMU) to explore how spatio-temporal nature may paradoxically elide deep time natural history. Primarily its naming spatial placement rather than impressive collections it houses, I identify distortions related three elements NHMU: after a multinational mining company, architectural attempt represent iconic landforms, imposition on heretofore-undeveloped parcel land. Taking these in sum, argue that museum, which is meant by architects be harmony with land, elides harmonizes land produced replacing ancientness novelty conjoining extraction education. elision, performed building purported embody f...