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MAM: Getting it Right, from the Start
“Early in the design process Terry Riley [then the museum’s director] and the architects, agreed that the design driver was to meet the needs of the institution and if the building was to become an icon it would be because of its role in the community,” says Robert Portnoff, project director of the Paratus Group, the consulting firm assisting with the development.
The project is all about experience at every level, from construction to final building. It started with a well-thought-out, yes, “curated” program, which became a strong thread throughout the process. That, of course, is usually the function of a program, but here the program’s design has been taken to another level.
The institution itself has evolved from what used to be merely an exhibition space (known as the Centre for the Fine Arts). It eventually began collecting and became the Miami Art Museum (MAM). As the city’s cosmopolitan population grew, so did the cultural scene, resulting in an active and talented arts community. This created a demand for a new facility that would be more appropriate to the world-class destination Miami was becoming (not to mention more space for its rapidly growing collection of 20th and 21st century international art).
