CONTEMPORARY MUSEUMS

A critical survey of contemporary museums, as well as a reference in thefield of architecture. The book analyzes the design and production ofmuseum complexes all over the world in the last decade, and gives acritical interpretation of one of the most challenging subjects in therecent architectural panorama. The author organizes 89 designed and mostlybuilt museums through a series of critical categories each introduced by ashort introduction: "Essential," "Monolith," "Archeology," "Insert,""Overlapping," "Theatre," "Context" . The work of the most importantcontemporary masters such as Alvaro Siza, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando,Massimiliano Fuksas, Renzo Piano, Steven Holl, Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry,Daniel Libeskind crosses the most recent research and and experiences inthe world of museum's. The works of emerging architects such as TezukaArchitects, Mansilla & Tunon, Asymptote, Diller + Scofidio, DeluganMeissle, UN studio, Michael Maltzan, and many others shows clearly howmuseum design became a fundamental field of research on the changing natureof the public spaces as well as on the relevant relationship betweenlandscape and architecture