{"product_id":"towards-a-new-museum","title":"Towards a New Museum","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince first publication in 1998  Towards a New Museum has achieved iconic status as a seminal exploration of the late-20th-century revolution in museum architecture: the transformation from museum as restrained container for art to museum as exuberant companion to art. Author Victoria Newhouse critiqued numerous institutions for the display of art opened in the 1970s  1980s  and 1990s  culminating in Frank Gehrys Guggenheim in Bilbao and Richard Meiers Getty Center in Los Angeles. In this expanded edition  she continues her investigation of new museums  assessing the radical  21st-century changes that have propelled Herzog \u0026amp; de Meurons De Young Museum in San Francisco and SANAAs 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa  Japan  to the forefront of this building type. Among the institutions added to this new edition are the Giovanni and Marella Agnelli Pinacoteca  perched atop an enormous Fiat factory in Turin  Italy  and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas  both by Renzo Piano Building Workshop; three notable updates of the museum as sacred space  two by Yoshio Taniguchi and one by SANAA; the Lois \u0026amp; Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati by Zaha Hadid; and expansions of the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid by Ateliers Jean Nouvel  the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis by Herzog \u0026amp; de Meuron  and the Museum of Modern Art in New York by Taniguchi. Finally  the De Young Museum  reflecting its own eclectic conditions  and the 21st Century Museum  consisting of non-hierarchical spaces for every conceivable kind of contemporary artwork as well as facilities for social exchange  are innovative hybrids that propose new directions for the future of museum architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983952408629,"sku":"ByrdShop_1580931804","price":120.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781580931809.jpg?v=1770815637","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/towards-a-new-museum","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}