Title & Author:

Imagining the future of the Museum of Modern Art.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, ©1998.

Description:

343 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

Studies in modern art, 1058-997X ; 7

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / John Elderfield -- The New Museum of Modern Art expansion: a process of discovery / Glenn D. Lowry -- Conference and lecture series: Introduction / John Elderfield -- The Pocantico Conference: Building the future, museums of modern art in the twenty-first century -- Opening remarks / Glenn D. Lowry, Kirk Varnedoe -- Conversation I: Peter Eisenman, Lars Nittve, Richard Serra, Mark Taylor / Margit Rowell, moderator -- Conversation II: Adam Gopnik, Robert Irwin, Susanna Torruella Leval, Bernard Tschumi / John Elderfield, moderator -- Conversation III: Jean-Louis Cohen, Arata Isozaki, Elizabeth Murray, John Walsh / Peter Galassi, moderator -- Conversation IV: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, James Cuno, Rem Koolhaas, Bill Viola / Deborah Wye, moderator -- Summary session: Mary Lea Bandy, Terence Riley, Patterson Sims / Glenn D. Lowry, moderator -- Lecture series: Imagining the Museum of Modern Art in the twenty-first century. Building the future: some observations on art, architecture, and the Museum of Modern Art / Glenn D. Lowry -- The idea of a modern museum / Jorge Klor de Alva, Henri Zerner / John Elderfield, moderator -- The museum and society: Janet Abrams, Robert A.M. Stern, Fred Wilson / Helen Searing, moderator -- Rethinking the modern: Terence Riley, with Mary Lea Bandy, John Elderfield, Glenn D. Lowry -- The Charette: Introduction / Terence Riley -- Excerpts from the architects' submissions: Wiel Arets, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Dominique Perrault, Rafael Viñoly, Tod Williams/Billie Tsien -- The finalists: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Yoshio Taniguchi, Bernard Tschumi -- The architectural competition: Introduction / Terence Riley -- Excerpts from the architects' proposals: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Yoshio Taniguchi, Bernard Tschumi.

Summary:

This is a description of the first stages in the process leading to the choice of architect to rebuild New York's Museum of Modern Art. It contains transcripts of conferences and lectures on the future of art museum.

ISBN:

0870700561 (Museum of Modern Art and Thames and Hudson Ltd.)
9780870700569 (Museum of Modern Art and Thames and Hudson Ltd.)
0810961865 (H.N. Abrams, Inc.)
9780810961869 (H.N. Abrams, Inc.)

Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Conception et construction
The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
21.71 commercial and industrial buildings.
Architektur
Museumsbau
Umbau
Aufsatzsammlung
Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.)
Kunstmusea.
Uitbreidingsplannen.
Art museums New York (State) New York.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung
Exhibition publications.
Conference publications.
Charettes.
Lectures.
Proposals.

Added entries:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Studies in modern art ; 7.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205942
Call No.: N620.M9 A8 1998
Status: Available