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9780471349150

Building Type Basics for Museums

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471349150

  • ISBN10:

    0471349151

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-01
  • Publisher: Wiley

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Summary

Here's the essential information you need to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details. Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion. Order your copy today!

Author Biography

ARTHUR ROSENBLATT, FAIA, of RKK&G Museum and Cultural Facilities Consultants, is an architect and consultant who specializes in museums and cultural facilities. He was Vice Director, then Vice President of Architecture and Planning at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has also served as Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Vice President of the Grand Central Partnership, and President of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
Thomas Hoving
Preface vi
Stephen A. Kliment
Acknowledgments viii
Art Museums
1(152)
Urban Museum Recast Grand Louvre, Paris, France
2(12)
New Mega-Museum The Getty Center, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California
14(18)
Museum Exploits Unique Rural Site Miho Museum, Shiga, Japan
32(7)
A Regional Art Museum Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
39(9)
Big-City Museum with Ongoing Expansion Program The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
48(12)
Art Museum in Downtown Location Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
60(8)
Addition to Prominent Historic Museum Building Sainsbury Wing/National Gallery, London, England
68(10)
University Art Museum Addition Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
78(11)
Recreating an Art Museum Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
89(11)
New Museum Spurs Economic Development Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
100(18)
Mixed Use: Museum and Hotel Combined Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan
118(6)
Satellite Museum as Symbol of Civic Rebirth Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
124(14)
Big-City Art Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
138(15)
History Museums
153(44)
Special-Interest Museum and Cultural Icon The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio
154(8)
Museum as Memorial The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
162(14)
Armed Forces Museum American Air Museum, Duxford, England
176(7)
Vernacular History Recalled Route 66 Museum, Clinton, Oklahoma
183(4)
Museum Focused on Research and Teaching McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
187(10)
Children's and Yout Museums
197(16)
Culture for Kids Children's Museum of Houston, Houston, Texas
198(6)
Children's Museum Minnesota Children's Museum, St. Paul, Minnesota
204(9)
Science and Natural History Museums
213(14)
Outer Space on Earth Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space, New York, New York
214(7)
Science in the West Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, Arizona
221(6)
Specialized Museums and Galleries
227(22)
Urban Zoo Renovated Central Park Wildlife Center and Wildlife Gallery, New York, New York
228(5)
Small Museum for Limited Collection Beyeler Foundation Museum, Basel, Switzerland
233(9)
Specialized Collection Jack and Belle Linsky Galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
242(7)
Technical Notes
249(4)
Lighting
250(1)
Mechanical/Electrical and Environmental Systems
251(1)
Security
252(1)
Fire Protection
252(1)
Glossary 253(2)
Bibliography 255(2)
Index 257

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