Title & Author:

Museums for a new millennium : concepts, projects, buildings / edited by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani and Angeli Sachs ; with an introduction by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, an essay by Stanislaus von Moos, and contributions by Friedrich Achleitner [and others] ; [translations from the Dutch, Arthur Payman ; from the French, David Radzinowicz Howell ; from the German, Peter Green, Elizabeth Schwaiger, Robert H. Thomas ; from the Italian, Marguerite Shore, and from the Spanish, Silvija Danielson].

Publication:

Munich ; New York : Prestel, 1999.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Hessenhuis, Antwerp and eleven other institutions between Feb. 4, 2000 and Nov. 23, 2003.
Published on the occasion of a travelling exhibition held at the Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Feb. 4-Apr. 30, 2000 and 11 other venues in Europe and the United States from June 2000 through Nov. 2003.
"Biographies and selected bibliographies": p. 214-223.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-223).
Biographies: Tadao Ando -- John M. Armleder -- Mario Botta -- Santiago Calatrava -- David Chipperfield -- Norman Foster -- Katharina Fritsch -- Frank O. Gehry -- Giorgio Grassi -- Vittorio Gregotti and Manuel Salgado -- Zaha M. Hadid -- Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron -- Steven Holl -- Josef Paul Kleihues -- Rem Koolhaas -- Ricardo Legorreta -- Daniel Libeskind -- Richard Meier -- Gerhard Merz -- Jose Rafael Moneo Valles -- Juan Navarro Baldeweg -- Jean Nouvel -- Renzo Piano -- Aldo Rossi -- Alvaro Siza Vieira -- Oswald Mathias Ungers -- Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown -- Peter Zumthor.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Contemporary museum buildings are often pure manifestations of the architectural concepts of their designers, making them interesting not only as functional buildings, but as a seismograph of architectural culture as well.

ISBN:

3791322192 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9783791322193 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Art museum architecture.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Art Musées Architecture.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture des musées d'art.
Architecture, Modern.
Museumgebouwen.
Museus (arquitetura)
Museus de arte.
Arquitetura.
Musées (édifices)
Museum architecture

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Magnago Lampugnani, Vittorio, 1951-
Sachs, Angeli.
Moos, Stanislaus von.
Achleitner, Friedrich, 1930-2019.
Achleitner, Friedrich, 1930-
Hessenhuis.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 208140
Call No.: NA6690 .M8 1999
Notes: Project: Director's Projects
Status: Available