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New Museums: Contemporary Museum Architecture Around the World (Universe Architecture Series)

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31 museums in this small size survey at only 6.5 x 8.25 inches (16.5 x 21 cm) are depicted only by photos, but good ones. Following the introductory part on 12 pages, each of 31 buildings is headed by a description filling up a title page with text followed by 5 pages with only photos. This is an album-like book without any technical edge. It is similar to the book "New Museums" (ISBN: 0714844985), but only a half of its size and... splendor. Like all from the Universe Architecture series, it is compact and well published.
CONTENTS:
6 Introduction
18 Contemporary Art Museum; St. Louis, Missouri; Allied Works Architecture
24 Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts; St. Louis, Missouri; Tadao Ando
30 Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art; Helsinki, Finland; Steven Holl Architects
36 Contemporary Arts Center (CAC); Cincinnati, Ohio; Zaha Hadid
42 Jewish Museum; Berlin, Germany; Daniel Libeskind
48 American Folk Art Museum; New York, New York; Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates
54 Museum of Modern Art, Queens; Long Island City, Queens, New York; Michael Maltzan and Cooper, Robertson & Partners
60 Museum of Modern Art; New York, New York; Yoshio Taniguchi
66 Kunsthaus Graz; Graz, Austria; Spacelab Cook-Fournier
72 Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation; Vienna, Austria; Ortner and Ortner
78 Kunsthaus Bregenz; Bregenz, Austria; Peter Zumthor
84 Tate Modern; London, England; Herzog & de Meuron
90 Dia:Beacon; Beacon, New York; Robert lrwin and OpenOffice Art + Architecture Collaborative
96 0-Museum; Iida, Nagano, Japan; SANAA
102 Kalkriese Archaeological Museum Park; Kalkriese, Germany; Gigon & Guyer
108 Paper Art Museum; Shizuoka, Japan; Shigeru Ban
114 Art Pavilion "De Verbeelding"; Zeewolde, Netherlands; René van Zuuk Architects
120 Makino Museum of Plants and People; Shikoku Island, Japan; Hiroshi Naito
126 Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science; Matsunoyama, Japan; Takaharu + Yui Tezuka Architects
132 De Young Museum; San Francisco, California; Herzog & de Meuron
136 Vulcania: Parc Europeen du Volcanisme; Saint-Ours les Roches, Auvergne, France; Hans Hollein
142 Mesquite Heritage Museum and Art Center; Mesquite, Nevada; AssemblageSTUDlO
148 Luyeyuan Sculpture Museum; Sichuan Province, China; Jiakun Liu
154 Stone Museum; Nasu, Japan; Kengo Kuma & Associates
160 asher Sculpture Center; Dallas, Texas; Renzo Piano Building Workshop
166 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Fort Worth, Texas; Tadao Ando
174 Nevada Museum of Art; Reno, Nevada; William Bruder
180 Bellevue Arts Museum; Bellevue, Washington; Steven Holl Architects
186 Moderna Museet; Stockholm, Sweden; Rafael Moneo
192 Museu Serralves; Oporto, Portugal; Alvaro Siza
200 Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College; Saratoga Springs, New York; Antoine Predock
206 Notes
207 Photography Credits
208 Resources