New Museum Architecture: Innovative Buildings from Around the...

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Click on the Google Preview image above to the read some pages of this book! Since the opening of the Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum in 1997. the museum architecture has enjoyed worldwide attention on an unprecedented scale and been a focus for some of this era's greatest architects' big-budget projects. That single watershed project demonstrated to municipalities across the globe the power of architecture to transform the image of an entire city. and has made the early 21st century the unofficial age of the museum building. New Museum Architecture examines in detail the boom in architecturally ambitious museum projects. beginning with the Guggenheim and continuing with a profusely illustrated tour of some thirty examples of the world's most innovative and exciting museum architecture.