Archive for July 2nd, 2008
The Museum of Modern Art, First Variation (1930)
Gallery label text, 75 Years of Architecture at MoMA, 2007:
In 1930, Howe and Lescaze were invited to speculate on the ideal configuration of a new building for The Museum of Modern Art. They generated several schemes, finding different ways to bring light into the galleries. This solution, the fourth and most experimental, separates the galleries […]
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Stairway at the Chicago MCA, America
The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art’s new building was built in 1996, designed by Josef Paul Kleihues of Berlin.
One of the largest art institutions in America, the building marries the city’s rich history of modernist architecture with the functions of a major art museum. Poised between NYC and the west coast art worlds, the architecture […]
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Modern Architecture, Glass Wall
Modern Architecture, Grazer Stadtteil Mariatrost…
I like this building, how about you…??
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Contemporary Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia
Architecture (including landscape architecture) is the largest and most encompassing of the visual arts. One of the challenges faced by the user is to determine just how big a building is, and the yardstick against which we measure the size of a building is our own size.
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