Over the past 10 years there has been a succession of new museum buildings that seem to want to compete with the art inside – as if the permanence of the structure trumps the objects that can be rearranged inside. Tadao Ando’s new Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is different – it “assumes that art remains a vital part of our existence. As an architect, his aim is to allow us to understand that relationship more clearly, to bring us into closer contact with both the art and ourselves. It is architecture for art’s sake, without condescension.”