Contemporary Museums
Publisher: Skira
Published: April 20, 2010
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9788857202587
Subjects: Professional & Technical -- Architecture -- Building Types & Styles -- Museums; Professional & Technical -- Architecture -- Reference
Description: The volume analyzes approximately ninety projects from the past decade using seven categories: essential (museum as reduction of complexity), Monolith (material symbol), Archaeological (critical memory of an identity), Implant (new functions in a historical structure), Interweave (dialectical relations and contrasts between different spaces), Theatre (scenic machine), Context (the museum modulated along the lines of the landscape) -- back cover.