"The Museum Transformed" analyzes the collision of architecture and culture in the controversial realm of contemporary museum design since the opening of the Pompidou Centre in 1977. The author assesses the extent to which architects satisfy the requirements of the modern museum. Presenting examples of recent museum architecture, including the work of Frank Gehry, Arata Isozaki, Hans Hollein, Michael Graves, Fumihako Maki and Gae Aulenti, this book discusses the collision of architecture and culture.
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From Publishers Weekly
Opposing the established image of the museum as a treasure house or palace of culture, the idea of a museum as "anti-palace" won ground with the 1977 opening in Paris of the Pompidou Center, a steel-and-glass skeleton which many saw as a desanctification of art. In a tour de force of cultural interpretation, Newsweek architecture critic Davis examines the transformation of the contemporary museum, ranging from I. M. Pei's pristine pyramid astride the Louvre to the museum as populist symbol, e.g., the Dallas Museum of Art. The "non-style style," born in low-rent, artist-managed alternative spaces, blossomed in the Dia Foundation in Manhattan and in 98-A Boundary Road, British media-magnate Charles Saatchi's London warehouse devoted to minimalism and neo-expressionism. Davis detects a recent countermovement back to cloistered "palace" ideals, as exemplified in Richard Meier's "self-ennobling" High Museum in Atlanta. More than 200 illustrations (half in color) accompany the text.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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With increased attendance and a new diversity of functions, argues the author, traditional museum architecture is no longer adequate: museums must now have large public spaces, bookshops, restaurants, theaters, libraries, and classrooms. The breakthrough structure, as he sees it, was the Pompidou Center in Paris, which opened in 1977. Since then, architects have struggled with the problem of designing new museums, museum additions or renovations, and alternative spaces that can encompass the many new, often contradictory functions of today's art institutions. With insight and humor, Davis examines the successes and failures of museum architects as they seek to transform the traditional treasure house into a center of public culture. Color photographs reveal the beauty and creativity of these structures--from the controversial glass pyramid at the Louvre to the highly praised Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, to the avant-garde Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. Strongly recommended.
- Lynell A. Morr, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Lib., Sarasota, Fla.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Lynell A. Morr, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Lib., Sarasota, Fla.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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