Main entry:

Mack, Gerhard.

Title & Author:

Art museums into the 21st century / Gerhard Mack ; with a contribution by Harald Szeemann.

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 1999.

Description:

109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Covers extend to form additional leaves.
Ecce Museum: much chaff, little grain -- Time rediscovered -- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ; The museum as sculpture -- interview with Frank O. Gehry -- Museum of Modern Art, New York ; Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London ; The museum as urban space -- interview with Jacques Herzog -- The Getty Center, Los Angeles ; The museum as campus -- interview with Richard Meier -- Moderna and Arkitektur Museet, Stockholm ; The almost vanishing museum -- interview with Rafael Moneo -- Cluture and Congress Centre Lucerne ; The museum as an exhibition machine -- interview with Jean Nouvel.
Museum for the Foundation Beyeler, Basel ; The museum as a safe -- interview with Renzo Piano -- Kunsthaus Bregenz ; A museum made of light -- interview with Peter Zumthor -- Acknowledgements/illustration credits -- The architects.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Item consists mainly of interviews with architects of recent (1990s) museum buildings: Frank O. Gehry (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao), Jacques Herzog (Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate Gallery of Modern Art), Richard Meier (Getty Center, Los Angeles), Rafael Moneo (Moderna and Arkitektur Museet, Stockholm), Jean Nouvel (Culture and Congress Centre Lucerne), Renzo Piano (Museum for the Fondation Beyeler, Basel) and Peter Zumthor (Kunsthaus Bregenz).

ISBN:

3764359633
9783764359638
9780817659639
0817659633

Subject:

Art museums Designs and plans.
Art museums Europe.
Art museums United States.
Architects Interviews.
Art Musées Architecture États-Unis Dessins et plans.
Art Musées Architecture Europe.
Art Musées Architecture États-Unis.
Art Musées Architecture Europe Dessins et plans.
Architectes Entretiens.
Architects
Art museums
Museumsbau
Kunstmuseum
Kunstmusea.
Museumgebouwen.
Musées Architecture États-Unis Histoire 1990- ...
Musées Architecture Europe Histoire 1990- ...
Europe
United States

Form/genre:

Interviews
Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Szeemann, Harald.

Art museums into the twenty-first century

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204122
Call No.: NA6695 .M3 1999
Status: Available