Part of a series that places buildings within their historical context, this text considers the Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Clore Gallery and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It includes specially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. By presenting these different museums together in one volume, the reader can examine the varying approaches taken by three different architects in three different continents, to designing for very specific and challenging museum commissions.
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Part of a series that places buildings within their historical context, this text considers the Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Clore Gallery and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It includes specially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. By presenting these different museums together in one volume, the reader can examine the varying approaches taken by three different architects in three different continents, to designing for very specific and challenging museum commissions.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Not a survey of 20th Century museum architecture,
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This review is from: Twentieth Century Museums II (Architecture 3s) (v. 2) (Hardcover)
The previous reviewer seems to have written the right review for the wrong book... This is NOT a survey of modern museum architecture, and don't expect to find either Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bibao or Piano's Beyeler Foundation in Basel. Although I do not own this book, I want to stress that it covers only three buildings, but in remarkable depth, one each by Isozaki, Stirling, and Freed of Pei Cobb Freed. Each of the three books situates the context of the work within the architect's oeuvre, and comprises a section of top-notch photographs, as well as a selection of drawings, including construction details. I should make it clear that Phaidon's "Architecture 3S" series is a collection of hardcovers comprising three "Architecture in Detail" volumes each. I have only the best to say about the quality of the "Architecture in Detail" series, and pricewise the "Architecture 3S" series is a bargain: for less than the price of one "Architecture in Detail" volume one can buy three volumes bound together as an "Architecture 3S" title.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Each museum is briefly described with simple pictures,
By www.delalonde.com "www.chateauresidence.com" (Chateau-Bois-Briand, Nantes,Loire-Valley,France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Twentieth Century Museums II (Architecture 3s) (v. 2) (Hardcover)
This book is not an art book; it is a reasonable list of extraordinary museum buildings including the most recents (Guggeheim museum in Bilbao). I was happy to re-discover Beyeler fondation in Basle (Switzerland) and some other famous masterpieces but a bit disappointed not to feel inspired in anyway by the way this book was designed.
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