Innovation and inspiration in today’s museum architecture Star architects from Zaha Hadid to Herzog &de Meuron have shaken up the formerly staid world of museum architecture, bringing bravura to new buildings and extensions. But the trend for new museums to opt for bold contemporary architecture goes well beyond the stunning work of Renzo Piano or [&hellip
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Museums are some of the great architectural hallmarks of any place. Since the discovery of the Bilbao Effect, triggered at the end of the last century by the Frank O. Gehry’s building, new museums have been emerging all over the world. The volume presents the most varied forms of exhibition buildings of the last decade [&hellip
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Since the opening in 1997 of the Guggenheim Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, museum architecture has enjoyed worldwide attention on an unprecedented scale. That single watershed project demonstrated to municipalities that architecture has the power to transform the image of an entire city, thus making the turn of the twenty-first century the unofficial age of [&hellip
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Here’s the essential information you need to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more.Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details.Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the [&hellip
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The twenty-first century has seen a boom in museum construction, both in new buildings and renovations or additions to existing ones. Nearly thirty museums are given close inspection in this generously illustrated volume. Each entry includes a discussion of the building’s cultural and geographic environment, complemented by color photographs, sketches, and architectural plans. The book [&hellip
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Museum interior spaces must be as carefully designed as their facades if not more so to meet the needs of both the art on display and the viewers. The design and construction of art museums in America thus is a complex process, and one rarely undertaken lightly. The architect must design a building that effectively [&hellip
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Markedly different in location and appearance, the four Tate Galleries, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St. Ives, and Tate Modern, nevertheless share certain features: their waterside settings, their distance from fashionable city centers, and their role in the regeneration of their neighborhoods. In this beautifully illustrated book, Helen Searing traces the architectural history of each [&hellip
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A critical survey of contemporary museums, as well as a reference in the field of architecture. The book analyzes the design and production of museum complexes all over the world in the last decade, and gives a critical interpretation of one of the most challenging subjects in the recent architectural panorama. The author organizes 89 [&hellip
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