Museums for a new millennium concepts, projects, buildings ; [this volume was first published on the ocassion of the exhibition of the same name held at numerous venues in Europe and America from February 2000 through November 2003 ; exhibition dates Hess

This is a history of museum architecture in the last decade of the twentieth century, presented with sketches, drawings, models and descriptions. The aim is for the important tendancies in contemporary architecture to be compared by using their most original and radical forms. A few of the buildings illustrated are: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Marie Botta, the Jewish Museum in Berlin by Daniel Libeskind, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm by Rafael Moneo and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao by Frank O. Gehry Contemporary museum buildings are often pure manifestations of the architectural concepts of their designers, making them interesting not only as functional buildings, but as a seismograph of architectural culture as well Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with the spine stamped in yellow. Edited By Vittoria Magnago Lampugnani And Angeli Sachs.