Main entry:

Self, Ronnie, author.

Title & Author:

The architecture of art museums : a decade of design : 2000-2010 / Ronnie Self.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
©2014

Description:

x, 297 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-290) and index.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas / Tadao Ando Architect & Associates -- Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio / Zaha Hadid Architects -- Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria / Spacelab Cook/Fournier -- Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas / Renzo Piano Building Workshop -- The Museum of Modern Art, New York / Yoshio Taniguchi and Associates -- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota / Herzog & de Meuron -- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain / Atelier Jean Nouvel -- de Young Museum, San Francisco, California / Herzog & de Meuron -- Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion, Toledo, Ohio / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA -- Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado / Studio Daniel Libeskind -- The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, Massachusetts / Diller Scofidio + Renfro -- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building, Kansas City, Missouri / Steven Holl Architects -- Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio / Coop Himmelb(l)au -- New Museum, New York / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA -- Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece / Bernard Tschumi Architects -- Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany / Sauerbruch Hutton -- Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France / Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines -- Museo Nazionale Delle Arti Del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy / Zaha Hadid Architects.

Summary:

"As a building type, art museums are unparalleled for the opportunities they provide for architectural investigation and experimentation. They are frequently key components of urban revitalization and often push the limits of building technology. Art museums are places of pleasure, education and contemplation. They are remarkable by their prominence and sheer quantity, and their lessons are useful for all architects and for all building types. This book provides explicit and comprehensive coverage of the most important museums built in the first ten years of the 21st Century in the United States and Europe. By dissecting and analysing each case, Ronnie Self allows the reader to get under the skin of each design and fully understand the process behind these remarkable buildings. Richly designed with full technical illustrations and sections the book includes the work of Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Peter Cook & Colin Fournier, Renzo Piano, Yoshi Taniguchi, Herzog & de Meuron, Jean Nouvel, SANAA, Daniel Libeskind, Diller Scofidio & Renfro, Steven Holl, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Bernard Tschumi, Sauerbruch Hutton, and Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines. Together these diverse projects provide a catalogue of design solutions for the contemporary museum and a snapshot of current architectural thought and culture. One of few books on this subject written by an architect, Self's analysis thoroughly and critically appraises each project from multiple aspects and crucially takes the reader from concept to building. This is an essential book for any student or professional engaged in designing a museum"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780415506519 (hardback)
0415506514 (hardback)
9780415506526 (pb)
0415506522 (pb)
(ebook)
9781315817149
(ebook)
1315817144

Subject:

Art museum architecture Themes, motives.
Architecture des musées d'art Thèmes, motifs.
ARCHITECTURE General.
ARCHITECTURE Buildings Public, Commercial & Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE Buildings General.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286381
Call No.: BIB 226667
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available