Contemporary museum architecture and design : theory and practice of place / edited by Georgia Lindsay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindsay, Georgia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

"Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases eighteen 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 emphasize 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 color illustrations, this book celebrates successful museum architecture whilst 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of contributors

Introduction - Georgia Lindsay

Museums as Containers

Museums as Places for People

Museums in Context

References

PART 1: ICONS: Interrogating Spectacle and Design

1. Iconic or Engaging? Beyond the Spectacle - Elizabeth Ann Macgregor

Effect of Star Architecture on Function and Program

Suffering and Benefiting from Star Architecture: Effect of Star Architecture on the Institution

Effect of Star Architecture on the City

Discusion: The Wide Range of Effects of Star Architecture

Acknowledgment

2. The Power of Star Architecture and Iconic Design: Kunsthaus Graz, Austria - Johannes Dreher, Nadia Alaily-Mattar, and Alain Thierstein

3. Transformational Architecture as Urban Catalyst: Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, Municipal Policy, and the Cultural Renaissance - Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller

Introduction

Agenda Seting and Public Policy: Toward the Creative City

Arts and Culture in the City

Toronto and the Knowledge Economy

The Museum as Icon

Conclusion

PART 2: INVITATIONS: Design with Communities in Mind

4. Designing with Community for Revitalization: A Creative Hub at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, US - Ann Baier Lambson

Co-Visioning with Comunity

The Martin Building Project

The Creative Hub

Method

What We Heard

A Shared Vision

Impacts on Design

Other Learning AND Engagement Spaces: Design Studio

Lesons Learned and Next Steps.

Conclusion

Notes

5. Making an Urban Living Room: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, US - Megan Lykins Reich

6. Museum as Place-maker - Kerstin Thompson

Campus Repair: Monash University Museum of Art

To Life: Jewish Holocaust Center

Go with the Flow: Sheparton Art Museum

Imaginary Landscapes: Arthur Boyd Galery and Creative Learning Center

7. Design for Citizenship: North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, US - Daniel P. Gottlieb

History: from Incarceration to Culture

Art and Landscape

Art and Environmentalism

Becoming a Campus

Toward Citizenship

PART 3: EXPERIENCES: Understanding and Reimagining Design Inside

8. The Open and Integrated Museum - William Smart

The Concept of Openes

Content and Proces

Refiting of the Galeries

Open Storage Facilities

Design and Conservation

Education

Comunity and Gathering

Financial Models and Potential

The Galery: Unique Space or 'White Box' Functionalist

9. Building Citizens by Building Museums: Royal Ontario Museum &amp

Art Gallery of Ontario - Matt Patterson

The Museum as an Institution and as Architecture

Two Museums, Thre Eras

Civic Identity and the "Layers" of Museum Architecture

10. Experience and Meaning in Museums - Helen Norrie

Examining the Architectural Typology of Museums

From Temple to Forum

Museums Staging Experience

11. Planning Art Museums from Inside-out: Design for Visitor Experiences - İpek Kaynar Rohloff

Spatial Organization Properties of Museum Galeries and Buildings

The Effects of the Spatial Organization of Galeries on Visitor Experiences

Space Programing and Planing with Visitor Experiences in Mind

Notes.

References

12. Illuminating History: The Mosegaard Museum in Aarhus, Denmark - Jade Polizzi

PART 4: BODIES AND MINDS: Designing for Inclusion

13. A Sensory Place for All - Meredith Banasiak

Suporting Inclusivity acros Perceptual Abilities

Perceptible Information: Not Enough, Too Much, and Just Right

When Senses are in Conflict: An Imperceptible Experience

A Perceptible Museum Experience Integrating User, Environment, and Contents

14. Understanding Museum Architecture from Disability Experience: Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon, Portugal - Caroline Van Doren, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, and Ann Heylighen

The Pavilion of Knowledge

Comparing Intentions and Experiences

Discusion and Conclusion

Note

15. Body Conscious Design in Museums - Galen Cranz and Chelsea Rushton

What Is Body Conscious Design and How Is It Relevant to Museums?

What is Museum Fatigue? Some Comon Causes and Some Proposed Solutions

Conclusions

PART 5: SUSTAINABILITIES: Green Design for New Museums

16. Triple Bottom Line Sustainable Design: Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West in Arizona, US - Christiana Moss and Christopher Alt

Museum Origins

Creating Economic and Social Sustainability

Sustainable Building Design

Social Sustainability

Economic Sustainability

17. Less Energy, More Stability: Passive Building Principles for Collection- and Visitor-Friendly Net-Zero and Net-Positive Buildings, and a Proposal for the Museum of Energy - Jonathan Bean

Why Do Museums Use so Much Energy?

Introducing Pasive Building

Other Considerations

The Museum of Energy: A Provocative Speculation

References.

18. Bringing Nature into Place: Green Roofs as Place Makers in Museum Architecture - Angela Loder

The Creative City: Competition, Investment, and Museums as Placemaker

Gren Roofs: Amenity Space or Ecological Solution?

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

Case Study: Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Case Study: Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario

Index.

ISBN:

0-429-02117-8

0-429-66756-6

9780429021176

OCLC:

1121602663