New Museums in Spain / Neue Museen in Spanien
Klaus Englert
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Hardcover. Spanish museum architecture has experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small towns off the tourist beaten track to acquire extraordinary museum buildings. This book confirms the nature of Spanish architecture, recorded from Rafael Moneo's early Museo de Arte Romano in Merida to Herzog and de Meuron's Calixa Forum art gallery. Num Pages: 200 pages, 277 colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; AMG; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 254 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1330.
Text in English and German. Spanish museum architecture has experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small towns off the tourist beaten track to acquire extraordinary museum buildings. This is expressed most visibly without a shadow of a doubt in Frank O Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But there are not just the international stars who have contributed to this success. Spanish architects in particular have designed unique museums that have changed the look of whole towns. One example is the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León in Castille, built by the Madrid architects ... Read more
Text in English and German. Spanish museum architecture has experienced a marked upturn since the 1990s, helping even small towns off the tourist beaten track to acquire extraordinary museum buildings. This is expressed most visibly without a shadow of a doubt in Frank O Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. But there are not just the international stars who have contributed to this success. Spanish architects in particular have designed unique museums that have changed the look of whole towns. One example is the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León in Castille, built by the Madrid architects ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681178
SKU
V9783936681178
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99-15
About Klaus Englert
Klaus Englert studied philosophy and German. He was academic adviser to the Zollverein development company in Essen. He has worked for several years as free-lance culture correspondent and architecture critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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