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Twentieth-century museums 1 - v. 1 : By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Louis Kahn and Richard Meier - New National Gallery, Berlin, 196

Part of the Architecture 3s S. series
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Part of a series that places buildings within their historical context, this text considers Van der Rohe's New National Gallery, Kahn's Kimbell Art Museum and Meier's Museum fur Kunsthandwerk.

It includes technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together.

By presenting them together, the aim of the text is that the reader can examine the similarities and differences in approach taken by the architects in designing buildings with successful interior spaces for viewing art and exteriors which present a public face to the world.

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Phaidon Press Ltd
0714838780 / 9780714838786
Hardback
727.6
01/07/1999
United Kingdom
English
[180]p. : ill. (some col.)
31 cm
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Contents: New National Gallery, Berlin 1962-8 / Maritz Vanderberg. Originally published: 1998 - Kimbell Art Museum / Louis I. Kahn. Originally published: 1992 - Museum fèur Kunsthandwerk / Richard Meier. Originally published: 1992.