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Museums for a New Millennium : Concepts, Projects, Buildings / edited by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Angeli Sachs ; with an introduction by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, an essay by Stanislaus von Moos, and contributions by Friedrich Achleitner ... [et al.] ; [translations from the Dutch, Arthur Payman ; from the French, David Radzinowicz Howell ; from the German, Peter Green, Elizabeth Schwaiger, Robert H. Thomas ; from the Italian, Marguerite Shore, and from the Spanish, Silvija Danielson].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1999.Description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 3791322192 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 727/.7/09049 21
LOC classification:
  • NA6695 .M874 1999
Summary: This is a history of museum architecture in the last decade of the twentieth century, presented with sketches, drawings, models and descriptions. The aim is for the important tendancies in contemporary architecture to be compared by using their most original and radical forms. A few of the buildings illustrated are: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Marie Botta, the Jewish Museum in Berlin by Daniel Libeskind, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm by Rafael Moneo and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao by Frank O. Gehry
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Books Library First Floor NA6695 .M874 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 7115

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Hessenhuis, Antwerp and eleven other institutions between Feb. 4, 2000 and Nov. 23, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-223).

This is a history of museum architecture in the last decade of the twentieth century, presented with sketches, drawings, models and descriptions. The aim is for the important tendancies in contemporary architecture to be compared by using their most original and radical forms. A few of the buildings illustrated are: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Marie Botta, the Jewish Museum in Berlin by Daniel Libeskind, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm by Rafael Moneo and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao by Frank O. Gehry

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