Twentieth-century museums I by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Kahn and Richard Meier

• Main Author: Vandenberg, Maritz
• Corporate Author: Phaidon Press
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Phaidon 1999
• Series: Architecture 3s
• Subjects: Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig > 1886-1969 > Criticism and interpretation; Meier, Richard > 1934- > Criticism and interpretation; Kimbell Art Museum; Neue Nationalgalerie (Germany); Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt am Main; Art museum architecture; Architecture, Modern > 20th century
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• Item Description: Originally published 1992-1998 in series: Architecture in detail
• Physical Description: 1 volume [various pagings] illustrations, some colour, plans 32 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 0714838780; 9780714838786

Part of a series that places buildings within their historical context, this text considers Van der Rohe's New National Gallery, Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum and Meier's Museum fur Kunsthandwerk. It includes technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. By presenting them together, the aim of the text is that the reader can examine the similarities and differences in approach taken by the architects in designing buildings with successful interior spaces for viewing art and exteriors which present a public face to the world