Architecture of the Barnes Foundation Gallery in a Garden, Garden in a Gallery

Name: Architecture of the Barnes Foundation Gallery in a Garden, Garden in a Gallery
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ISBN: 9780847838059

ISBN-10: 0847838056

ISBN-13: 9780847838059

Edition: 2012

Authors: Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, Kenneth Frampton

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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…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 9.76" wide x 11.77" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 3.124
Language: English

Kenneth Frampton is the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.