Four Museums Carlo Scarpa: Museo Canoviano, Possagnos Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Rafael Moneo: The Audrey Jones Beck Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Heinz Tesar: Dammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg

by Buzas, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9783930698684
• ISBN10: 3930698684
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-29
• Publisher: Edition Axel Menges

Summary

To commemorate the bicentenary of Antonio Canova's birth, the Venetian authorities decided to have an extension added to the overcrowded original museum, and they commissioned the Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa for this delicate task. Scarpa composed a small, but highly articulated building that is in a strong contrast to the neo-Classical, monumental basilica. The subtly designed sequence of spaces is unique even among Scarpa's so many extraordinary museum interiors as the architect was here in the rare position to compose the spaces as well as the placings of the exhibits. The placing of the sources of natural light which infuses the plaster surfaces with the softness of real life is in itself a rare achievement and it took an equally rare photographer to record such symphonies in white in all their magic.

Table of Contents

Carlo Scarpa, Museo Canoviano, Possagno
Judith Carmel-Arthur and Stefan Buzas: Canova and Scarpa in Possagno	p. 6
Plans	p. 16
Pictorial section with photographs by Richard Bryant	p. 22
Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
Kurt W. Forster: The museum as civic catalyst	p. 60
Plans	p. 66
Pictorial section with photgraphs by Ralph Richter	p. 76
Credits	p. 110
Rafael Moneo, The Audrey Jones Beck Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Martha Thorne: Reading between the lines: the museums of Rafael Moneo	p. 112
Plans	p. 122
Pictorial section with photographs by Joe C. Aker and Gary Zvonkovic	p. 128
Credits	p. 164
Heinz Tesar, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
Gottfried Knapp: Raumfiguren fur die Kunst--Heinz Tesars Museumsbau fur die Sammlung Essl in Klosterneuburg	p. 168
Gottfried Knapp: Spatial figures for art--Heinz Tesar's museum building for the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg	p. 169
Plans	p. 178
Pictorial section with photographs by Christian Richters	p. 186
Credits	p. 222
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