The Museum Transformed: Design and Culture in the Post-Pompidou Age - Hardcover

Davis, Douglas

9781558590649: The Museum Transformed: Design and Culture in the Post-Pompidou Age

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558590641 ISBN 13: 9781558590649

Publisher: Abbeville Press, 1990

Museum Impossible chronicles the extraordinary expansion of museum contruction over the last few decades. This richly illustrated volume surveys the full breadth of late 20th-century museum design by presenting examples of the best of recent museum architecture in a fashion both challenging and revealing. 197 illustrations.

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About the Author:

Jack Lang is a dEputE from the Pas de Calais region at the AssemblEe Nationale, a member of the Commission of Foreign Affairs in the National Assembly, and president of the Association for the Development of the Centre Pompidou. In addition to other governmental positions, he is the president of l'Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France. Lang was a lifelong friend of James Baldwin.

From Library Journal:

With increased attendance and a new diversity of functions, argues the author, traditional museum architecture is no longer adequate: museums must now have large public spaces, bookshops, restaurants, theaters, libraries, and classrooms. The breakthrough structure, as he sees it, was the Pompidou Center in Paris, which opened in 1977. Since then, architects have struggled with the problem of designing new museums, museum additions or renovations, and alternative spaces that can encompass the many new, often contradictory functions of today's art institutions. With insight and humor, Davis examines the successes and failures of museum architects as they seek to transform the traditional treasure house into a center of public culture. Color photographs reveal the beauty and creativity of these structures--from the controversial glass pyramid at the Louvre to the highly praised Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, to the avant-garde Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. Strongly recommended.
- Lynell A. Morr, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Lib., Sarasota, Fla.
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