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This three-volume catalogue is the first of two Parts of the Catalogue Raisonné to cover the large corpus of architectural and topographical drawings from the Paper Museum. With a second Part dedicated to drawings of Renaissance and later architecture (A.X, forthcoming), the present title covers the drawings documenting the remains of antique buildings. These architectural remains were to be found for the most part in Rome and the surrounding countryside, stretching south east to the Alban Hills and east to Palestrina and Tivoli. Commissioned and collected by Cassiano dal Pozzo and his younger brother Carlo Antonio, the drawings formed a fundamental part of their ambitious enterprise to record all surviving traces of Roman civilization in the Museo Cartaceo. The drawings included in this catalogue are divided between the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum and the Sir John Soane's Museum, with an additional group from the Stirling-Maxwell albums now dispersed among other institutions and private collections. The material ranges from fragments depicting a single architectural detail to folios with views of whole towns and fortification schemes. The number of older drawings acquired by the dal Pozzo brothers in the present group far exceeds those that were newly commissioned by them, and includes groups of drawings connected with architectural treatises by Antonio Labacco (for his Libro appartenente all'architettura, 1552) and by Giovanni Antonio Dosio (for his Trattato) as well as by Pirro Ligorio for his encyclopaedic collection. One of the earliest sheets bears drawings of the Arch of Trajan in Benevento, newly attributed to Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439--1501). Among the commissioned works by Cassiano are copies after earlier architectural drawings by, for example, Giuliano da Sangallo from his famous sketchbook in the Vatican, the Barberini Codex. The arrangement of the drawings in volumes 1 and 2 of the catalogue is chronological by artist. Volume 3 consists of individual drawings and smaller groups arranged by location (starting with Rome and moving through Albano and its vicinity, the Campagna and the rest of Italy) and then by subject (capricci, columns, entablatures, cornices, friezes, architraves and other architectural fragments). Comparative photographs of the extant buildings and other sources for the drawings are included. Introductory essays introduce the different categories and groups of drawings, discuss the ways in which the dal Pozzo brothers ordered the architectural drawings within their Paper Museum and place the material in the context of previous and contemporary collections of architectural drawings. ... Read more

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An easy-to-read guide based on excavations conducted under the auspices of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The book includes contributions by D. Buitron, D. Christou, M. Loulloupis, A. H. S. Megaw, A. Papgeorhiou, S. Sinos and D. Soren. Also included are drawings maps, full-color photographs, and a bibliography.

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Filled with spectacular color photos and intriguing detail, these informative books belong in the library of every student of architecture.

Architecture for museums has changed drastically over time. This brilliantly illustrated volume offers a study of the great museum buildings of the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries followed by a consideration of today's innovations in the arrangement of space and light for the display of artworks. ... Read more

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Latin inscriptions form a rich source of information about classical Rome for ancient historians. Eager to record their achievements in a permanent form, the Romans left inscriptions on buildings, altars and votive monuments, and on tombstones, many thousands of which have survived to this day. Historians in Renaissance Italy were the first to recognize that the inscriptions that turned up in farmers? fields and on building sites provided key evidence from the classical past. Realizing also that such stones were often being destroyed as fast as they were discovered, they set about recording as many as they could. By the early seventeenth century ancient epigraphy had become a highly developed branch of learning, and the drawings of inscriptions preserved in Cassiano dal Pozzo?s Paper Museum are a fascinating reflection of this earlier world of scholarship. The finely executed illustrations cover a wide chronological range and provide details about Roman law, the Roman army and officials of the Roman Empire as well as aspects of Roman life overlooked in literary sources. In most cases the inscriptions concerned are known to us in other copies, but sometimes the dal Pozzo drawing provides our only record of the piece. All told, the assemblage offers a unique perspective on classical scholarship from 1550 to 1700. ... Read more

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Published on the occasion of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's fiftieth anniversary, and in association with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, this fascinating, beautifully designed volume is the first to fully explore the process behind one of the greatest, most iconic Modern buildings in America-and the world. The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum examines the history, design and construction of Wright's masterwork with preliminary drawings, models and photographs, as well as three major essays that consider the building in three important contexts. Hillary Ballon discusses the obstacles Wright faced in getting the Guggenheim built, and how his complex relationship with New York City was reflected in his design; Neil Levine explores why Wright's Guggenheim had much greater impact on museum architecture than museums designed by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; and Joseph Siry writes about the museum's novel construction and how it impacted the work of a later generation of architects including Frank Gehry, Louis Kahn and I.M. Pei. Through archival materials, letters and a richly illustrated timeline, the book also traces the relationship between the architect and his clients during the 16-year construction process. ... Read more

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The Museum of Modern Art is now in the midst of the largest building project in its history. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new Museum will reopen in midtown Manhattan in winter 2004-05 to coincide with its 75th anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot Museum will be nearly twice the size of the former facility, offering dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach, and scholarly research. But The Museum of Modern Art is not Taniguchi's first museum, though it is his first museum in the United States. The architect has been designing museums in his native Japan since 1978.

In celebration of the opening of the new MoMA building, the Museum is publishing this book about Taniguchi's museums--nine in all. They include the Tokyo National Museum, Marugami Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagano Art Museum, Ken Domon Museum of Photography, and Shiseido Art Museum. For the Higashiyama Kaii Gallery in Nagano, Taniguchi situated a display space for the works of painter Kaii Higashiyama next to a reflecting pool and garden. In the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, built on the old castle site of Komoro City, Taniguchi expressed the history and distinct nature of the place by affording views to both the new city and the historic area. Finally, the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, situated across from the city's railway station, was designed to include a plaza that connects the museum with the station. Taniguchi: Nine Museums will discuss the plans of each of these museums with an emphasis on The Museum of Modern Art's new building.In this museum, art, architecture, and people contribute to a total environment--as in the Japanese tea ceremony, where the teacup is very simple in form and color. Once the tea's poured, the teacup transforms into a whole new object involving the temperature of the tea, its color, its smell. That's the environment.--Yoshio TaniguchiEssay by Terence Riley.Hardcover, 10 x 10 in. / 204 pgs / 141 color and 64 b&w. ... Read more

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Art in water garden.
If one is trying to understand contemporary Japanese architectural trends,
or the heavy theoretical background of Taniguchi's
architecture, then this might not be the best book. Yet, if one is
seeking an architectural book that speaks of architecture as a spatial
art and a coercive modulator with water
garden, then here is a book that provides great pleasure.

This book communicates more with drawings and supplementary images than
words. When I first saw this book at the bookstore, I was a bit hesitant
to buy it. The price and the text in the book simply did not match.
Expository writing for each project is extremely short. Yet they are
condensed enough to deliver quintessential themes of the project.

The common denominator, besides being museums, which binds the
projects, is water body (garden). His museums have one leg in the water
and the other leg on the earth. His water bodies (typically, artificial)
have different faces; sometimes, static, promoting Ryoanji-like
meditation; othertimes, dynamic, promoting Katsura-like shakkei (editing
middle ground to borrow background landscape).

His museums weave in and out of the water to illuminate and intensify
the experience. The strokes of water garden in his museums, without
doubt, will wet the dry museum fatigue. In addition, because Taniguchi
reveals sometimes part and sometimes all of a water body, his spaces
breathe.

One criticism I have is that the fourth project, Marugame
Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, somehow does not belong
with other projects. It's a fine piece of building, but unlike
other museums, it's very self-contained. The other eight museums actively
engage with the exterior water body. Only the fourth museum defeats the
purpose of inter-penetration of Taniguchi's architecture; that is,
inter-penetration of Japanese garden and modernist's space.
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James Ingo Freed's United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem is regarded as one of the late 20th century's most profound architectural statements. Examined in this book, it is more than a museum, as an institution dedicated to research and teaching as well as contemplation and commemoration. In designing it, Freed sought nothing less than to use the very fabric of the building to convey the criminality of the systematic, industrialized extermination of some six million Jews and other so-called enemies of the Nazi state. Freed was galvanized in this approach by a visit to some of the death camps, and came away convinced that the architecture of the memorial could suggest the frightening efficency with which the Final Solution was carried out. It follows that the Hall of Witness, the great central void around which the museum is organized, is a haunting and evocative space in modern architecture. ... Read more

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Part of a series of technically informative monographs embracing a broad spectrum of internationally renowned buildings. This work deals with the Kimbell Art Museum, and includes a comprehensive set of technical drawings and working details. ... Read more

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A surprising trend can be discerned in museum building since the end of the 1990s, one that still seems to be going strong today: an unprecedented number of grand-scale projects have been undertaken in recent years, ont only by private sponsors, but in many cases made possible instead by public funding. This book not only shows new museums , galleries and exhibition venues for the fine arts, but also features unusual buildings housing special collections, as well as museums exhibting material from other fields of knowledge. One central focus of contemporary architecture can be traced particulary well in the examples illustrated in the book: new surfaces that enable the creation of new forms. Astoundingly, parallel to this development another architectural approach which can be already be called classical is also experiencing a Renaissance - the clearly defined, austere cube cloaked in a free-floating glass shell. No less than three buildings depicted here demonstrate the immense variety that is possible within these rigid parameters. The works shown here are no more than five years old and show, what a broad bandwidth can be discerned within a moment's snapshot. There are visionaries like Asymptote and masters such as Günter Behnisch and Tadao Ando, whose buildings span an arc from classical modernism to the architecture of today. ... Read more

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Beautiful book
This is a beautiful book with designs from world-renown architects such as Tadao Ando and Gunter Behnisch.It has very large, clear photos of the buildings, and has descriptions in Deutsch, English, Spanish, French, and Italian.All the buildings are of modern, minimalist designs.Great book to have in the library or displayed on the coffee table. ... Read more

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October 2004 marks the 100th anniversary of the largest underground transit network in the world. Love it or hate it, if you're a New Yorker, you can't live without it: 3.5 million people ride the rails every day. The subway is as much a symbol of New York City as Central Park and the Statue of Liberty. Commemorating its centennial, this official publication presents an illustrated history of the architecture and design of the entire complex, from the interiors of the trains and the mosaic signage at the stations to the evolution of the token and the intricacy of the intertwined, rainbow-colored lines on the free, foldout map.

Produced with the New York City Transit Museum, Subway Style documents the aesthetic experience of the system through more than 250 exclusive pictures. The book includes newly commissioned color photographs of historic and contemporary station ornamentation as well as imagery from the Museum's archives. The images span the full century, from the system's inception in the early 1900s up to and including architectural renderings for the still-to-be-built Second Avenue line.AUTHOR BIO: The NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM is one of only a handful of museums in the world dedicated to urban public transportation. The Museum's collections of objects, documents, photographs, films, and historic rolling stock illustrate the story of mass transit's critical role in the region's economic and residential development since the beginning of the 20th century. The Transit Museum's main facility is located in a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Brooklyn Heights, an ideal setting for the Museum's 20 vintage subway and elevated cars, and wide-ranging educational programs for children and adults. A gallery annex in Grand Central Terminal presents changing exhibits relevant to the millions of commuters who use mass transit every day.

Photographer Andrew Garn has exhibited his work in galleries around New York City and across the country. His photographs are also held in numerous museum and private collections.Amazon.com Review
Unlikely as it may seem, the 100th anniversary of the New York City subway system was the impetus for a handsome book, Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture & Design in the New York City Subway. Produced by the New York Transit Museum, this abundantly illustrated design history traces the origins and development of subway cars and stations, including ceramic and metalwork detailing, ticket booths, signage, route maps and advertising. Treated in a merely dutiful way, this material would probably be of interest only to subway buffs. But Subway Style boasts high-quality photographs, an inviting design, and a succinct and wryly amusing text that relates subway developments to other cultural happenings and isn't too proud to explain specialized terms. It's the kind of book that makes the evolution of turnstiles sound fascinating. With a contractual mandate to instill "beauty" into "a great public work," the IRT--the first of three subway lines--originally featured elaborate Beaux Arts ceramic detailing displaying historical scenes or symbolizing local landmarks. Gracious bronze grilles served as ticket windows, and station names were painstakingly spelled out in glass mosaic tiles. Succeeding generations morphed these features into increasingly streamlined versions utilizing the latest technology and design trends. Wood station seats gave way to cast terrazzo perches cantilevered from the wall, then to molded fiberglass, polyurethane and finally back to wood. Usable maps were a long time in coming. In 1958, 18 years after the three lines were united, the Transit Authority finally published a single guide showing the entire system. Massimo Vignelli--whose bold, color-keyed station signage was a major innovation--later produced an abstract, all but useless map that was, as the book says, "emblematic of New York’s 1970s retreat from urban life." The chapter on subway ads is (naturally) the most fun, ranging from Amelia Opdyke "Oppy" Jones'expressive cartoon characters--caught in the act of dropping gum wrappers or propping their feet on the seats--to head shots of women hoping to be voted "Miss Subways." —Cathy Curtis ... Read more

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A beautiful book
This book is a beautiful catalog of the visuals associated with the New York City subway system. I have seen books with pictures of the cars, but no other book shows the stations, the history of the transit maps, subway advertisements, even the various designs of tokens that have been used. It's a great job and I'm happy to give it a 5-star rating!

if you appreciate art, architecture, urban history then this is for you
I've always appreciated the unique style and details of the NYC subway system.And being a history affecionado as well, this book satisfied my curiosity.A nice blend of historical description, nice collection of photos.I think ultimately it's more on the photo side, but there are succinct captions for each of them.

This is not really a thorough history book but I would describe more as a jumping point should you decide it's something you want to know more about.

NEW YORKS UNDERGROUND JEWEL
Finally a book that appreciates New York's iconic subway system..yeah London has the clean and modern "Tube" and Paris has it's efficient "Metro", but the most famous or infamous and most recognizable is the NYC "Subway".The images in this book are fantastic and the text kept me interested all the way to the last word.I really came away with an appreciation for the history of this great transportantion system and it's surprising beauty..who knew?Highly recommended.

Best book published for centennary
After having seen too many books narrating the history, especially the first years, of the NYC Subway, this book is quite a surprise. Stunning photographs, with interesting details!

A few errors
Interesting - The book is copyright 2004 by the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The legal name for the parent agency is Metropolitan TRANSPORTATION Authority. So is this book legal? ... Read more

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A comprehensive series of reconstructed views rendered in colors approximating the original finishes of polished plaster and paint, with 42 different stages of development in three-dimensional form, show what the Acropolis looked like at various times from ca. 330 BCE to CE 600. On an accompanying CD-ROM 112 color plates include constructions of individual structures and some photos of Acropolis fabric at the time of excavation and consolidation. The text accompanying the color plates provides a rationale for the sequences illustrated and an interpretation of ancient Maya intentions in developing the architectural forms that were found, including ideas of rulership and monumental architecture.

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The museum boom, which has produced a constant stream of new buildings in many cities in Europe and the USA since the seventies, has reached another high point.
Important museum buildings by high-profile architects have opened within a single year in Bilbao, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Bregenz and Basel. The concert hall in Jean Nouvel’s Culture Centre in Lucerne has been completed. The New York Museum of Modern Art held a competition for a large-scale extension, and the new Tate Gallery in the disused Bankside power station in London has moved into a crucial building phase.
These museum buildings and designs reveal current perceptions of how art is presented in public in their architectural design, their functional planning and their relationship with the cities in which they are sited. Harald Szeemann’s contribution, written from the point of view of an exhibition curator, describes the prospects that these trends offer museum culture, and possible threatening consequences. ... Read more

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Features the most important selection of contemporary museums by well known architects today. ... Read more

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Museum Builders
This book is a collection of photographs showing the architecture of some of the worlds most intriguing museums.It is a book by and for architects, but people with an interest in seeing how both the concept drawings and the actual construction came together will find this book interesting.It is more of a book one would find inthe waiting room of an architect's office than in someone's home, but it does have meritas an account of design work.For the really ambitious model railroader, some of the museums included here have scale drawings one could take and build a model around.Good luck. ... Read more