American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York -- Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas -- Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington -- Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas -- COPIA, Napa, California -- Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York -- Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan -- Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas -- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa -- Getty Center, Brentwood, California -- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York -- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington -- Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Haven -- Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas -- Menil Complex, Houston, Texas: Menil Collection; The Rothco Chapel; Cy Twombly Gallery; Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum -- Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin -- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas -- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois -- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California -- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas -- National Gallery of Art, East Building, Washington D.C. -- Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona -- Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri -- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California -- Seat tle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington -- University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming -- Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut. Works in Progress: Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio -- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. -- Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado -- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia -- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota -- Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, Massachusetts -- Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York -- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Summary:
"This survey follows the trajectory of museum architecture in America since the birth of Modernism by examining art museums throughout the country, each described in short essays by the architects and museum directors themselves and illustrated with more than two hundred color photographs by architectural photographer Paul Rocheleau. As these examples make clear, museum architecture in the United States has become the only dependable refuge for great architects to push the boundaries of design, the one area of architectural practice in which radically new forms and cutting-edge materials have been welcomed, if not demanded by the museum-going public.
Of special interest are designs for a number of museums currently under construction or near completion, including works by Daniel Libeskind in Denver and Frank Gehry in Washington, D.C." "With public interest in museum design at an all-time high, this is an opportune moment for the world to look back at seven decades of architecture for art in America - the work of fifty-three of the world's greatest architects for thirty-nine museums in twenty states."--Jacket.
