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New Acropolis Museum
Bernard Tschumi
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Description for New Acropolis Museum
Hardcover. Num Pages: 198 pages, 150 colour. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1268.
A comprehensive look at the eagerly anticipated New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, and the celebrated collection it houses. Marking the opening of the New Acropolis Museum, this book examines both its architecture and the archaeological treasures it was built to house. The building addresses the dramatic complexities of the collection and the site with minimalist simplicity by using three main materials—glass, stainless steel, and concrete. "There’s no way at the beginning of the twenty-first century you can try to imitate even superficially the art of 2,500 years ago," Tschumi says. The "precision of the concept was really ... Read more
A comprehensive look at the eagerly anticipated New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, and the celebrated collection it houses. Marking the opening of the New Acropolis Museum, this book examines both its architecture and the archaeological treasures it was built to house. The building addresses the dramatic complexities of the collection and the site with minimalist simplicity by using three main materials—glass, stainless steel, and concrete. "There’s no way at the beginning of the twenty-first century you can try to imitate even superficially the art of 2,500 years ago," Tschumi says. The "precision of the concept was really ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847834198
SKU
V9780847834198
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About Bernard Tschumi
Bernard Tschumi is an architect and a professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University in New York. Dimitrios Pandermalis is the President of the Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum and the museum’s president. Yannis Aesopos is an architect and a professor in the Department of Architecture at the University ... Read more
Reviews for New Acropolis Museum
"...complicated evolution [of the project] is vividly conveyed in...an excellent factual and photographic account..." ~The New York Review of Book