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Summary: Blah
Review: This is a pretty empty book, despite the somewhat promising premise. It opens with 2 short essays on the design of museums, and the rest of the book is primarily composed of pictures of recently designed museums. Each building presented is prefaced with a short blurb on its design and/or interesting qualities and most of the buildings are also presented with miniature plans.If anything, this is a coffee table book that fails in its attempts to address an issue that needs little, if any, addressing. The buildings presented have some interesting design ideas, and, judging from the pictures, provide an atmosphere that can be ideal for presenting art, art in itself, or something that might be described as "National Cafe Chain (starbucks, etc...)" Mid-90s Color Block and Graves' terrible denver library.
Rating:
Summary: Blah
Review: This is a pretty empty book, despite the somewhat promising premise. It opens with 2 short essays on the design of museums, and the rest of the book is primarily composed of pictures of recently designed museums. Each building presented is prefaced with a short blurb on its design and/or interesting qualities and most of the buildings are also presented with miniature plans. If anything, this is a coffee table book that fails in its attempts to address an issue that needs little, if any, addressing. The buildings presented have some interesting design ideas, and, judging from the pictures, provide an atmosphere that can be ideal for presenting art, art in itself, or something that might be described as "National Cafe Chain (starbucks, etc...)" Mid-90s Color Block and Graves' terrible denver library.
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