This thesis questions a conventional reading of site and context in architecture. Much in the way that memory distorts truth and history, the biases of site — commonly encompassing physical contexts, singular histories, socioeconomic conditions, and demographic analyses — distort the design of buildings.
This proposal enables the agency of the architectural elements to tell a new story of European culture, art, and history for the Museum of the 20th Century. The fragments of the building(s) are showcased as artifacts — objectively, in isolation; vestiges of cultural memory, irreducible to a singular history and ultimately self-referential.