Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design

Name: Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367075248
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Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design presents 18 essays by experts involved with museums, exploring the multifaceted nature of designing these cultural spaces. Covering topics from the role of museums as architectural landmarks to the nuances of gallery design, accessibility, community engagement, and sustainability, the book provides a comprehensive look at how architecture shapes museum experiences. With over 150 colour illustrations, it offers both celebration and critical insight into current trends and challenges in museum architecture.
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This book is ideal for architecture professionals, museum administrators, design students, and anyone interested in the social and cultural impact of museum buildings.

This book showcases eighteen diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variety of perspectives on this complex building type.

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Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases 18 diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variety of perspectives on this complex building type. Throughout, the authors emphasise new kinds of experiences that museum architecture helps create, connecting ideas about design at various levels of analysis, from thinking about how the building sits in the city to exploring the details of technology.

With sections focusing on museums as architectural icons, community engagement through design, the role of gallery spaces in the experience of museums, disability experiences, and sustainable design for museums, the collected chapters cover topics both familiar and fresh to those interested in museum architecture. Featuring over 150 colour illustrations, this book celebrates successful museum architecture while the critical analysis sheds light on important issues to consider in museum design.

Written by an international range of museum administrators, architects, and researchers, this collection is an essential resource for understanding the social impacts of museum architecture and design for professionals, students, and museum-lovers alike.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367075248

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 February 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 6 Tables, color; 29 Line drawings, color; 146 Halftones, color; 175 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Georgia Lindsay

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1179g

Pages: 360

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Georgia Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Design at the University of Tasmania. Her research focuses on the human experience of architecture, with a special interest in museums. She is author of The User Perspective on Twenty-First-Century Art Museums (2016) and co-editor with Lusi Morhayim of Revisiting "Social Factors": Advancing Research into People and Place (2015). She earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.