The architecture of the Barnes Foundation : gallery in a garden, garden in a gallery / Tod Williams, Billie Tsien ; edited by Octavia Giovannini-Torelli ; principal photography by Michael Moran.

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Williams, Tod (Tod C.)

Title & Author:

The architecture of the Barnes Foundation : gallery in a garden, garden in a gallery / Tod Williams, Billie Tsien ; edited by Octavia Giovannini-Torelli ; principal photography by Michael Moran.

Publication:

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Foreword / Aileen Roberts -- The Barnes Collection reinstated / Kenneth Frampton -- Dr. Barnes and his collection : the phantom client -- From concept to plan : gallery in a garden, garden in a gallery -- Site and landscape : building on the Parkway -- Facade : a tapestry of stone -- Pavilion : the support -- Light court : the living room -- Collection gallery : simplify, intensify.

Summary:

This is a comprehensive description and behind-the-scenes look into the architectural evolution of the Barnes Foundation's new building in downtown Philadelphia. In 2007, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects received the commission to design the new Barnes Foundation building, an enviable project that was surrounded both by controversy and the excitement of increasing access to one of America's premier collections of post-impressionist art, amassed by Dr. Albert C. Barnes in the early twentieth century. This book presents photographs and drawings highlighting the new building's sensitivity to the ideology of Dr. Barnes and the creativity of Paul Cret, who designed the foundation's gallery in Merion. In the new facility, the Merion galleries are faithfully reproduced at the same scale with similar materials and are seamlessly integrated into the larger new building a refined modernist masterpiece surrounded by grounds designed by landscape architect Laurie Olin.

ISBN:

9780847838059
0847838056

Subject:

Barnes Foundation.
Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates.
Art museum architecture Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture des musées d'art Pennsylvanie Philadelphie.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
Art museum architecture.
Museibyggnader.
Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Förenta staterna Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added entries:

Tsien, Billie.
Giovannini-Torelli, Octavia.
Moran, Michael, 1947-
Moran, Michael
Roberts, Aileen.
Frampton, Kenneth
Barnes Foundation.

Gallery in a garden, garden in a gallery

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280549
Call No.: BIB 217386
Status: Available

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