Word: monchengladbach
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...World as readily as upon those of the Old." Says Hollein: "I was never afraid to use materials in new contexts--plastics or alu- minum or marble, and all this together." Nowhere does he put more forms and materials together better than in his museum of contemporary art in Monchengladbach, West Germany. The Pritzker ostensibly honors a lifetime of work, but surely it is Monchengladbach that got the prize for Hollein. The three-year-old hillside museum is like a tiny town within a town, an agglomeration of distinct but compatible structures, a labyrinth set on its own stone Platz...
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