The Architecture Of Art Museums

Author : Ronnie Self
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317812753

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The Architecture of Art Museums by Ronnie Self Pdf

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 analyzing 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 professional engaged in designing a museum.

Author : Charles Saumarez Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500022436

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The Art Museum in Modern Times by Charles Saumarez Smith Pdf

A compelling examination of the art museum from a renowned director, this sweeping book explores how architecture, vision, and funding have transformed art museums around the world over the past eighty years. How have art museums changed in the past century? Where are they headed in the future? Charles Saumarez Smith is uniquely qualified to answer these questions, having been at the helm of three major institutions over the course of his distinguished career. For The Art Museum in Modern Times, Saumarez Smith has undertaken an odyssey, visiting art museums across the globe and examining how the experience of art is shaped by the buildings that house it. His story starts with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, one of the first museums to focus squarely on the art of the present rather than the past. When it opened in 1939, MoMA’s boldly modernist building represented a stark riposte to the neoclassicism of most earlier art museums. From there, Saumarez Smith investigates dozens of other museums, including the Tate Modern in London, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the West Bund Museum in Shanghai, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He explores our shifting reasons for visiting museums, changes to the way exhibits are organized and displayed, and the spectacular new architectural landmarks that have become destinations in their own right. Global in scope yet full of personal insight, this fully illustrated celebration of the modern art museum will appeal to art lovers, museum professionals, and museum goers alike.

Author : Georgia Lindsay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429664847

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Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design by Georgia Lindsay Pdf

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases 18 diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variety of perspectives on this complex building type. Throughout, the authors emphasize new kinds of experiences that museum architecture helps create, connecting ideas about design at various levels of analysis, from thinking about how the building sits in the city to exploring the details of technology. With sections focusing on museums as architectural icons, community engagement through design, the role of gallery spaces in the experience of museums, disability experiences, and sustainable design for museums, the collected chapters cover topics both familiar and fresh to those interested in museum architecture. Featuring over 150 color illustrations, this book celebrates successful museum architecture while the critical analysis sheds light on important issues to consider in museum design. Written by an international range of museum administrators, architects, and researchers this collection is an essential resource for understanding the social impacts of museum architecture and design for professionals, students, and museum-lovers alike.

Author : Eric M Wolf
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393732800

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American Art Museum Architecture by Eric M Wolf Pdf

Exploring the intersections of art, architecture, and design, at both renowned institutions and cutting-edge contemporary collections. Museum interior spaces must be as carefully designed as their façades—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 supports the art exhibited. The museumgoers’ interaction with the art must be enhanced by the architecture, while amenities such as restaurants, cafes, gift shops, and accessible and convenient restrooms ensure their comfort. Finally, the storage of works of art not on display must be accounted for in the building design. American Art Museum Architecture: Documents and Design explores all aspects of, and approaches to, museum architecture—the aesthetic, the practical, the innovative, and the functional. Architectural historian Eric M. Wolf delves into the archives of some of the country’s premier institutions not only to explore the design decisions made at their founding, but also to understand how those institutions have continued to evolve along with their collections, up to the present day. Wolf examines the gradual development of six major museums: the Frick Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the Menil Collection in Houston, the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He explains how each museum was originally conceived, how the architecture reflected or modified that original conception, and how the buildings have been reconsidered or revised in later years, as the nature of art, art display, and museum-going has evolved. Extensive archival plans, documents, and photographs enhance the narrative. American Art Museum Architecture also considers the unique architectural challenges often posed by contemporary art. Conceptual art, video installations, and large-scale pieces are increasingly found in permanent collections, at small galleries and encyclopedic institutions alike. Museums built decades ago may have to renovate in order to accommodate such pieces, while newer museums devoted to contemporary work must tackle new architectural challenges when considering how best to house this work. Encompassing both grand nineteenth-century institutions and avant-garde contemporary art collections, American Art Museum Architecture is a timely and fascinating exploration of the ever-changing relationship between architecture and art.

Author : Ingrid A. Steffensen-Bruce
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0838753515

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Marble Palaces, Temples of Art by Ingrid A. Steffensen-Bruce Pdf

The era from 1890 to 1930 constituted a building boom for American art museums designed in a monumental, classical style; both the proliferation of the buildings and the ubiquity of the style seem to indicate an architectural as well as a sociocultural phenomenon. The present work is an attempt to place the American art museum building of this period into its historical milieu, and employs over one hundred illustrations and sociocultural analysis to explain the significance of both the institutions and the structures housing them to those who came into regular contact with them, including architects, patrons, journalists, and museum personnel.

Author : Joan Darragh,James S. Snyder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015029479808

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Museum Design by Joan Darragh,James S. Snyder Pdf

Building an art museum represents a pinnacle of achievement in the careers of many museum professionals, architects, planners, engineers, builders, and design consultants. This comprehensive, accessible book - the first to be written from the point of view of the owner as client - introduces this important but intimidating process, covering all aspects of the planning, design, and construction of new museums and the renovation or expansion of existing facilities. Developed from a survey by leading museum professionals of thirty museums throughout the United States, this richly illustrated volume offers insights not available from any other source. It provides first-hand information on all facets of the building experience, culled from interviews with trustees, staff, patrons, and civic leaders in the museum community, as well as clients, architects, designers, and construction professionals. It examines in detail pre-architectural planning and the creation of an architectural program; selecting and hiring architects and other professionals; designing the museum; the economics of bidding, contracting, and construction management; and the realities of completion, moving in, and ongoing operations. By covering the conceptual, psychological, and emotional, as well as procedural and technical, issues of the museum architectural process, Museum Design provides a complete context for building art museums and other once-in-a-generation institutional projects. Museum professionals, trustees, volunteers, architects, consultants, and others interested in arts administration and institutional management will find it an indispensable resource and a guide, filled with conceptual, technical, andpractical knowledge previously available only to those with years of building experience.

Author : Patricia Cummings Loud,Louis I. Kahn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 082230998X

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The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn by Patricia Cummings Loud,Louis I. Kahn Pdf

Author : Scott J. Tilden
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0810949601

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Architecture for Art by Scott J. Tilden Pdf

This landmark publication looks at American art museums designed since the Museum of Modern Art was completed in New York in 1938. Each building is described in short texts by the architect and museum director and documented in beautiful photographs by renowned photographer Paul Rocheleau.

Author : Witold Rybczynski,National Gallery of Canada
Publisher : National Gallery of Canada = Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015032841267

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A Place for Art by Witold Rybczynski,National Gallery of Canada Pdf

La construction de nouveau Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, étudiée dans le contexte de deux siècles d'architecture européenne et américaine de musées. Croquis, photos et dessins, illustrent l'histoire du Musée et les innovations architecturales de Moshe Safdie.

Author : Helen Searing,Whitney Museum of American Art
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520048954

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New American Art Museums by Helen Searing,Whitney Museum of American Art Pdf

Examines the development of the architecture of American art museums, analyzing seven recent buildings

Author : Mimi Zeiger
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015058747992

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New Museums by Mimi Zeiger Pdf

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 the museum building. New Museums examines the boom in high-design museum projects in detail, beginning with the Guggenheim Bilbao’s groundbreaking role in the development of contemporary museum architecture. It continues with a beautifully illustrated tour of 30 examples of the most innovative and exciting museum architecture around the world, including Tadao Ando’s Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Zaha Hadid’s Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and many others.

Author : Michaela Giebelhausen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0719056101

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The Architecture of the Museum by Michaela Giebelhausen Pdf

From the Louvre to the Bilbao Guggenheim and Tate Modern, the museum has had a long-standing relationship with the city. Examination of the meaning of museum architecture in the urban environment, considering issues such as forms of civic representation, urban regeneration, cultural tourism and the museumification of the city itself. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present day, case-studies are drawn from Europe, South America and Australia. Contributions written by J.Birksted, V.Fraser, H.Lewi, D.J.Meijers and others.

Author : Traute M. Marshall
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1584656212

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Art Museums Plus by Traute M. Marshall Pdf

An engaging guide to over 150 art museums and more throughout New England

Author : Gerhard Mack,Harald Szeemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047553675

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Art Museums Into the 21st Century by Gerhard Mack,Harald Szeemann Pdf

This overview of the most important art museums of today shows a wide spectrum of design and explores the architecture of each museum in detail. Included is an essay on current trends in museum design and photographs.

Author : Geoffrey Mark Matthews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Art galleries, Commercial
ISBN : 0408500263

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Museums and Art Galleries by Geoffrey Mark Matthews Pdf