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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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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, New National Gallery, Berlin, 1962-8 / Maritz Vandenberg
• Louis I. Kahn, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1972 / Michael Brawne
• Richard Meier, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main, 1985 / Michael Brawne
• 2. Arata Isozaki, the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Gunma Prefecture, 1971-4 / Philip Drew
• James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates, Clore Gallery, London, 1987, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 1988 / David Jenkins
• James Ingo Freed, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, 1993 / Adrian Dannatt