(…) When Pierre Soulages, the greatest living painter in France, announced his intention to manage the construction of a museum in his home town Rodez in which it would be shown an important donation of the his work from his private collection, a huge amount of architectural offices entered the competition. Four teams made the cut: Marc Barani, Paul Andreu, Kengo Kuma and RCR. The main difference between the winning proposal (RCR) and the other three is the very concept of intervention, differentiated from the other by two main features. The first of them was the way of conceiving the location and the second the relationship between the building and the work to be exhibited. (…)