Walker Art Center and Herzog & de Meuron
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/01/2006
The Walker Art Center recently opened its expanded space, which includes a new theater, a new restaurant and more galleries, but is best known for being Herzog & de Meuron's first public building in the United States. The project drew national coverage from media including The New York Times. Expanding the Center addresses this public interest in the building with a generous selection of images, including sketches, renderings and photographs of the construction process and the completed work. Herzog & de Meuron's shimmering but grounded design mirrors the textures and shades of the Walker's original space, and an institutional philosophy based in innovation and risk-taking, the exploration of alternative approaches to learning, the experimental use of technologies to communicate information, and the design of spaces to enhance a variety of museum experiences. The book is organized around the decisions and actions of the architects, builders, Walker staff and the audience--i.e. designing, constructing, unveiling, staging, gathering, patterning, framing, collecting--and highlights the thinking that led to the visible form of the Center as well as the innovative projects and initiatives that give it its inimitable character.
- ISBN:
- 9780935640847
- 9780935640847
- Category:
- Individual architects & architectural firms
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-01-2006
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Walker Art Center
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234.95x165.1mm
- Weight:
- 0kg
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