Re-imagined Lending Library

Arch 306, Third Year Studio

Spring 2022

INTUIT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Josefina Guglielmone
Prof. Mattheis, Prof. Prittchet Intu756 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago. IL 60642

About Intuit
Since founded in 1991, Intuit has been Chicago’s only
museum to soley represent raw and self-taught art- and
remains one of the few museums in the world. In the
world of outsider art enthusiasts, Chicago is
renowned as the center for the genre’s recognition.

Intuit’s museum has engaged their audience with raw

artmaking and culture through the perspectives of
unconventional people with self-taught art making
approaches. The museum’s mission is grounded in the
ethos that powerful art can be found in unexpected
places and made by unexpected creators.

Intuit offers world-class exhibitions; a collection of

1,300 works of art; resources for scholars and students,
such as the Robert A. Roth Study Center, a non-circulat-
ing collection with a focus in the fields of outsider and
office

contemporary self-taught art; and educational program-

study collection
celebrate art education genre art promote self-
ming for people of all interest levels and backgrounds.
raw art
artist studio
continuation taught artists

Site

3rd floor

exhibition room office

museum
lounge

Vision Board main gallery

(double height)

Beyond a museum for the genre’s representation, my adaptive reimagination projects

modern day Intuit as a local art hub, for art enthusiasts, local artists, and neighbors to
browse around and even participate with its various arts programs- nurturing the
continuation of self-taught artmaking and culture through an ecology of collaboration
opportunities and resources between the museum’s galleries and different user zones.
2nd floor

HOW SHOULD RAW ART BE EXPERIENCED?

questioning how the way we represent
raw art relates to ones understanding of
the genre’s essence is important
considering the art’s unexamined and
spontaneous nature.

Representing art through an interactive

library format allows for a more
spontaneous gallery browsing culture. staff
service

The remiscent and personal essence

trading counter/ snack bar

staff
reception

brought to ones art viewing experience

allows for artist to be represented in
welcome
donations

their spontaneous nature.

pavilion

street gallery
community library neighbor entrance
interaction
room

Beyond the artists personification,

allowing an art audience to engage with
artmaking activities while visually
connected with artists at work further
ground floor
encompasses the art genre.

creative studio

library of ideas
museum

street gallery

study center

sculpture garden

welcome pavillion