1st Edition
The Architecture of Art Museums A Decade of Design: 2000 - 2010
Introduction 1. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX by Tadao Ando 2. The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH by Zaha Hadid 3. The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX by Renzo Piano 4. The New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece by Bernard Tschumi 5. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY by Yoshio Taniguchi 6.The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN by Herzog & de Meuron 7. The De Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA by Herzog & de Meuron 8. The extension to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid by Jean Nouvel 9. The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO by Daniel Libeskind 10. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA by Diller, Scofidio & Renfro 11. The Kunsthaus Graz, Austria by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier 12. The Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH by Coop Himmelb(l)au 13. The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MI by Steven Holl 14. The MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome by Zaha Hadid 15. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY by SANAA 16. Toledo Glass Pavilion, Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio by SANAA 17. Tthe Centre Pompidou Metz, France by Shigeru Ban 18. Quadracci Pavilion, The Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, Wisconsin by Santiago Calatrava 19. Denver Contemporary Art Museum, Denver, Colorado by David Adjaye Conclusion
Biography
Ronnie Self is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston, USA. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and advanced degrees in Theories of Architecture from the École d’Architecture Paris-Villemin and Philosophy of Art from the Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a registered architect practicing in Houston and previously worked in the Paris office of Renzo Piano Building Workshop for 12 years where, among other projects, he was the Architect in Charge of the Atelier Brancusi for the Centre Georges Pompidou. He writes regularly on recently completed projects throughout the United States for American and French magazines.
"He [Self] lucidly dissects how each of these often complicated buildings works in its context, how it is perceived and moved through by visitors, how exhibitions can be hung given the architectural strategies...how the buildings are structured and constructed, how mechanical and environmental systems operate, and how each is serviced."
-David Heymann, Cite Magazine
"The Architecture of Art Museums presents a terrific summation of the building type over the first decade of the twenty-first century and is the definitive reference work on the subject. It belongs on the shelf of any architect engaged in museum design."
--Eric Michael Wolf, Journal of Architectural Education
