Through compelling photography, this beautiful volume examines the relationship of a museum to its site, context, and collections. It represents the museum structure as a dramatic backdrop for the art in contains, and looks at how the building itself is recognized as art within its own context. Outstanding architectural talent, combined with financial largesse, both public and private, has resulted in a new wave of museums all over the world. Through compelling photography, this beautiful volume examines the relationship of a museum to its site, context and collections. For this building type, perhaps more than other, does offer such opportunities.
Nobody goes to a museum from nine to five, wearing a suit a suit and watching the clock.
They go for education, enlightenment, stories, culture, thrills. They want, and expect, to be intrigued by the architecture as well as the art and artifacts. Here is a splendidly illustrated selection of more than two dozen new museums. But there are other beauties among the less well-known examples. Three museums in Japan by Tadao Ando are particularly striking and seem to provide spatial passages well worth contemplating.