ABSTRACT
The twenty-first century controversy over whether spectacular art museum designs interfere with visitors' appreciation of the art inside was set off by Frank Gehry's iconic Guggenheim Bilbao of 1997. After Bilbao, many museum boards commissioned spectacular buildings, hoping to draw thousands of tourists. If function in architecture is understood as mere utility and aesthetics as mere visual form, end up with an irresolvable dualism between architecture for art and architecture as art. The aesthetic aspect of architectural experience is not just a matter of visual form, but multisensory, proprioceptive and mobile. The difficulty of achieving equilibrium between aesthetics and function requires that the author adds two corollaries to the principle of balance. Although each art museum design is unique in the way it attempts to balance aesthetics and functions, the author want to suggests some bridging devices for applying the principle of balance and its corollaries.
