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Building Type Basics for Museums (Building Type Basics (Wiley))

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A well written, must have volume for all involved in museum planning, design, architecture, and related fields.

comprehensive volume providing detailed information on the design of museum and cultural facilities. vast amount of information.

a major source of vital information in the design of museums.

at last. a really comprehensive design resource on the details of designing a museum facility. an abundance of useful diagrams and photos - and clear text.

As a practicing architect with several museum clients, this book, written by an authority on museum architecture, is a very useful resource. During the design process of several recent projects, I have referred to the book and found answers to several of my questions. the format and selected projects are outstanding and the text is concise and effective. Its on my shelf by my desk and I will contiue to use it. Highly recommended.

a very valuable resource for museum professionals and those involved in the programming and design of cultural projects.

This is the type of book that you look for when doing research. Valuable information complemented with detailed graphics is an effective combination for the understanding of such complex architectural program. Also, it contains a wide gamma of built projects throughout the world which gives the book an immediate reliability quality. Go ahead and get it!

Este es el tipo de libro que uno busca cuando se realiza alguna investigación. El hecho que contiene información valiosa e ilustraciones detalladas y completas, se convierte en una combinación efectiva para el entendimiento de tal complejo programa arquitectónico. Ademas, contiene una amplia gama de proyectos construídos alrededor del mundo que le da al libro una calidad de fiabilidad inmediata. Consígalo!

This book is the best reference source on the design of museums. It is informative and entertaining. I recommend it to all museum professionals and architects. Christopher Clay

As a practicing architect with several museum clients, this book, written by an authority on museum architecture, is a very useful resource. During the design process of several recent projects, I have referred to the book and found answers to several of my questions. the format and selected projects are outstanding and the text is concise and effective. Its on my shelf by my desk and I will contiue to use it. Highly recommended.

I own 4 books from Building Type Basics Series. They are Retail Facility, Hospitality Facility, Theater Facility and Museum Facility. So far, I considered this Museum Facility Book as the worst of all 4. For Retail, Hospitality and Theater, these three have a lot of generic information such as historical background of building type, space component, principles of design, etc. They also give a lot of examples based on those generic issues, topic by topic. In this Museum book, it is all about examples with plans and very little background information for each museums. There are a lot of pictures and plans which are not of good quality (I actually didn't expect them to be because it is not the strength of the series). I intended to buy this book (which is expensive) to obtain pure information. I did not get it either.

All I can say is, this book is not up to the par with the others in the same series that I own.