Frank Gehry - MARTa Herford

Frank Gehry - MARTa Herford

English, German  | pages 112 | 2005

Located at the center of the German furniture manufacturing

industry, Marta, the latest European Museum by Frank O.

Gehry, opened in December 2004 to universal acclaim. 

Conceived

as a laboratory for redefining the relationship between art,

design, and industry, this Gehry masterwork houses art

galleries, a library, educational facilities, and conference

and cultural meeting rooms.

While the gallery is, for Gehry,

an uncharacteristic neutral white cube, it is wrapped in a

series of bulging curvatures creating a dome that announces

his distinctive architectural signature. 

This book, which

contains previously unpublished material on the design and

construction of the museum, offers insight into the working

process of arguably the world's most famous architect, and

his ideas about the shifting boundaries between industry,

design, art, and architecture.

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French Museum Architecture

French Museum Architecture

 English | 343 Pages | PDF | 15 MB

Designing a museum involves not only conceiving the best way to reveal their collections, but also how to welcome and serve visitors, and how to incorporate the spaces needed for the behind-the-scenes work of curating, restoring, cataloguing and storing. 

The architects embarking on such a project must carry out in-depth studies and find innovative solutions, whether their mission is to inject new life into a historic museum, to integrate a modern museography, to combine an harmonise an old building with a contemporary space, or to create from scratch a museum that will be acclaimed by critics and the public alike. 

French Museum Architecture explores these different problematic through forty museum projects, ranging from the Orsay and Quai Branly museums in Paris, to the Lille Museum of Modern Art (LaM) and the Confluences Museum in Lyon, to name but a few. Each project is presented with the emphasis on the thought process behind the creation, exposing the main questions the architects had to address in order to come up with spaces that are efficient, intelligent, welcoming and dynamic, able to fulfil the expectations of a public ranging from academic researchers to the merely curious, and everyone in between.

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Museum Architecture

Museum Architecture

English/Chinese |

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French Museum Architecture

French Museum Architecture

2013 |  | English | 343 Pages | PDF | 15 MB

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French Museum Architecture

French Museum Architecture

by ICI Consultants

2013 |  | English | 343 Pages | PDF | 15 MB

Designing a museum involves not only conceiving the best way to reveal their collections, but also how to welcome and serve visitors, and how to incorporate the spaces needed for the behind-the-scenes work of curating, restoring, cataloguing and storing. The architects embarking on such a project must carry out in-depth studies and find innovative solutions, whether their mission is to inject new life into a historic museum, to integrate a modern museography, to combine an harmonise an old building with a contemporary space, or to create from scratch a museum that will be acclaimed by critics and the public alike. French Museum Architecture explores these different problematic through forty museum projects, ranging from the Orsay and Quai Branly museums in Paris, to the Lille Museum of Modern Art (LaM) and the Confluences Museum in Lyon, to name but a few. Each project is presented with the emphasis on the thought process behind the creation, exposing the main questions the architects had to address in order to come up with spaces that are efficient, intelligent, welcoming and dynamic, able to fulfil the expectations of a public ranging from academic researchers to the merely curious, and everyone in between.

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