351 p. : 22 cm

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

Includes bibliographical references

Museum and public space: from library to interwoven space -- Essential : New Museum of Contemporary Art ; Century Museum of Contemporary Art / SANAA: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa ; Royal Collection Museum / Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos ; Schweizerisches Landesmuseum Competition / Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos ; Kirchner Museum Davos / Gigon/Guyer Architekten: Annette Gigon, Mike Guyer ; Canary Islands Museum / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos ; Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art / SANAA ; Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum / Kengo Kuma & Associates ; Modern Art Museum / Tadao Ando Architect & Associates ; Conservation Centre for the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations / n!studio, Ferrini Stella Architetti Associati ; Towada Art Center / Atelier Bow-Wow --

Monolith: MuseumsQuartier / Ortner & Ortner Baukunst ; J. Paul Getty Center for the Fine Arts / Richard Meier ; American Folk Art Museum / Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates ; Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración / Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra ; Museo del restauro di Sassari / Giovanni Maciocco ; Fine Arts Museum of Castellón / Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos ; Schaulager-Laurenz Foundation / Herzog & de Meuron ; Museum Liner Appenzell / Gigon/Guyer Architekten ; Stone Museum / Kengo Kuma + Associates ; Arts Center, Casa Das Mudas / Paulo David ; Lu-ye-yuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum / Jiakun Liu ; Museum of Automotion / Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos ; Historial Memorial / Rudy Ricciotti ; Museo Felix Nussbaum; Jewish Museum Berlin / Daniel Libeskind -- The museum as stratigraphic tension: a story of people and ideas --

Archaeological : Archaeological Museum of Almería / Paredes Pedrosa ; Provincial Museum of Zamora / Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos ; Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Olbia / Giovanni Maciocco ; New Acropolis Museum / Bernard Tschumi Architects ; Museum of the Roman Theatre / Rafael Moneo ; Breche and Noye Archaeological Museum and Research Center; Museo Archeologico di San Vincenzo al Volturno / n!studio, Ferrini Stella Architetti Associati ; Jeongok Prehistory Museum / Dieguez Fridman Associated Architects, Casanova + Hernandez Architects ; Archaeological Museum and Park in Kalkriese / Gigon/Guyer

Implant : Art Depot, Museum im Kulturspeicher / Brückner & Brückner ; Tate Modern / Herzog & de Meuron ; MoMA QNS / Michael Maltzan Architecture ; San Telmo Museum extension / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos ; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Steven Holl Architects ; Pedro Barrié de la Maza Foundation / Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos ; Kunsthall at the Mostra d'Oltremare in Naples / Cherubino Gambardella ; Arengario Museo del Novecento / Studio Italo Rota & Partners ; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum / UNStudio ; Danish Jewish Museum / Daniel Libeskind ; Moritzburg Museum extension / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos ; Restoration and museographic design for Castel Tirolo / Markus Scherer, Walter Angonese, Klaus Hellweger ; Mill CIty Museum / Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle ; Alvéole 14: transformation of a submarine base / LIN Finn Geipel + Gulia Andi Architects Urbanists -- Inclusions: the museum as completion and transformation --

Interweave : New Mercedes Benz Museum / UNStudio ; Guggenheim Museum / Frank O. Gehry ; Akron Art Museum / Coop Himmelb(l)au ; Kaisma, Museum of Contemporary Art / Steven Holl Architects ; Fresno Metropolitan Museum / Michael Maltzan ; Denver Art Museum; Royal Ontario Museum / Daniel Libeskind ; The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts / Zaha Hadid ; Porsche Museum / Delugan Meissl Associated Architects ; Eyebeam Museum of Art and Technology / Diller Scofidio + Renfro ; Maxxi National Centre of Contemporary Arts / Zaha Hadid ; Extension Te Papa Museum / UNStudio ; Contemporary Art Centre Córdoba / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos ; Herning Center of the Arts / Steven Holl Architects ; Musac: Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León --

Theatre : Blur Building / Diller + Scofidio ; Expo 02 Forum Arteplage Biel / Coop Himmelb(l)au ; Hydrapier Pavilion / Asymptote Architecture ; Groninger Museum, the East Pavilion / Coop Himmelb(l)au ; Bianimale Nomadic Museum / Shigeru Ban Architects ; Musée des Confluences / Coop Himmelb(l)au ; Musée Nationale des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée / Rudy Ricciotti ; Classical Museum / Jean Nouvel ; Imperial War Museum North / Daniel Libeskind ; Institute of Contemporary Art / Diller Scofidio + Renfro -- The new museum contexts --

Context : Granitmuseum Bayerischer Wald / Brückner & Brückner ; Museum for Iberê Camargo Foundation / Alvaro Siza Vieira ; Landesgardenschau / Zaha Hadid Architects ; Ecomuseo of Rennes / n!studio: Ferrini Stella Architetti Associati ; Nanjing Museum of Art & Architecture / Steven Holl Architects ; Musée des Graffiti / Massimiliano Fuksas ; Design Competition for the Nuovo Museo di Castelmola / Antonella Mari ; Knut Hamsun Center / Steven Holl Architects ; Lab: Pavilion in the Kröller Müller Museum Park / gruppo A12 ; Anglona Paleobotanical Park / Giovanni Maciocco ; Matsunoyama Natural Science Museum / Tezuka Architects ; Ordrupgaard Museum extension / Zaha Hadid Architects ; Museum of Contemporary Art / Productora ; Museum of Cantabria / Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos

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