The architecture of
the Barnes Foundation : gallery in a garden, garden in a gallery / Tod
Williams, Billie Tsien ; edited by Octavia Giovannini-Torelli ; principal
photography by Michael Moran
Skira Rizzoli, New
York : 2012
176 p. :
principalmente il.
ISBN 9780847838059
Sbc Aprendizaje A-727.7 ARC
A comprehensive
description and behind-the-scenes look into the architectural evolution of the
Barnes Foundation's new building in downtown Philadelphia. In 2007, Tod
Williams Billie Tsien Architects received the commission to design the new
Barnes Foundation building, an enviable project that was surrounded both by
controversy and the excitement of increasing access to one of America's premier
collections of post-impressionist art, amassed by Dr. Albert C. Barnes in the
early twentieth century. The book presents photographs and drawings
highlighting the new building's sensitivity to the ideology of Dr. Barnes and
the creativity of Paul Cret, who designed the foundation's gallery in Merion.
In the new facility, the Merion galleries are faithfully reproduced at the same
scale with similar materials and are seamlessly integrated into the larger new
building--a refined modernist masterpiece surrounded by grounds designed by
landscape architect Laurie Olin.
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