Title & Author:

Unveiling the Prada Foundation / Fondazione Prada, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Germano Celant.

Publication:

Milan : Progetto Prada Arte, [2008]

Description:

267, [5] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
"The Prada Foundation's new Art Centre and permanent Exhibition Space is situated in a location that includes buildings dating from 1910s belonging to one of the first Milanese spirits manufacturing companies. Preserved in their original conditions, the seven different buildings including warehouses, laboratories, brewing silos and workers' residences surround a large courtyard. OMA/Rem Koolhaas's project adds an exhibition building, an auditorium and a tower to the existing structure to house selections of works from the collection. This project is a unique approach to the idea of the co-existence of contemporary architecture with the regeneration of an historic area, representing the evolution of the industrial development of Milan that continues to the present day"--Page 4 of cover.
"'Unveiling the Prada Foundation', Prada Foundation, Milan, April 2008"--Colophon.
Covers extend to form additional leaves.
"The Prada Foundation's new Art Centre and permanent Exhibition Space is situated in a location that includes buildings dating from 1910s belonging to one of the first Milanese spirits manufacturing companies. Preserved in their original conditions, the seven different buildings including warehouses, laboratories, brewing silos and workers' residences surround a large courtyard. OMA/Rem Koolhaas's project adds an exhibition building, an auditorium and a tower to the existing structure to house selections of works from the collection. This project is a unique approach to the idea of the co-existence of contemporary architecture with the regeneration of an historic area, representing the evolution of the industrial development of Milan that continues to the present day"--P. [4] of cover.
Unveiling the Prada Foundation / Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli -- A force field / Germano Celant -- Repertoire / Rem Koolhaas -- Existing : Great Hall ; Installations ; Offices + Gallery ; Haunted house ; Prada + Luna Rossa Archives -- New : Tower ; Box ; Ideal museum -- The Prada Foundation : Chronology, 1993-2008 / Germano Gelant with Antonella Soldaini.

Summary:

"After more than 15 years - during which it exhibited work by such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Dan Flavin, Carsten Holler, Barry McGee, Tom Friedman, Francesco Vezzoli, Tom Sachs and Nathalie Djurberg and hosted numerous lectures, panels and film festivals of unusual sophistication - Milan's Prada Foundation is widening its exhibition spaces and broadening its cultural perspective with a new compound designed by the renowned Dutch architecture firm, the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), led, of course, by its Pritzker-Prize-winning founder, Rem Koolhaas." "The new art center and permanent exhibition space will be situated in a location that includes early twentieth century buildings that originally belonged to one of Milan's first spirits manufacturing companies. Preserved in their original condition, the seven preexisting buildings include warehouses, laboratories, brewing silos and workers' residences - surrounded by a large courtyard. OMA/Koolhaas' project adds an exhibition building, an auditorium and a tower to the existing structures, which will house works from the permanent collection. This accessible volume documents the Foundation's past events and future developments, highlighting the ways that contemporary architecture can coexist with a regenerated historic site."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9788887029420 (paperback)
8887029423 (paperback)

Subject:

Koolhaas, Rem.
Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy)
Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
Art museums Italy Milan.
Art museums.
Italy Milan.
Art museums Italy Milan 1990-2010.
Additions (general components) Italy Milan 1990-2010.
Art 1990-2010.

Form/genre:

Exhibition Publications.
Exhibition publications.

Added entries:

Koolhaas, Rem.
Celant, Germano.
Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258682
Call No.: NA44.K825.23 P8 2008
Status: Available