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Tag: Museums
Around the World With Richard Rogers
During a career that spans more than fifty years, British architect Richard Rogers has helped shape the modern era.
Experience the EXPERIENCE Music Project
Architect Frank Gehry uses computers to help design and build his famous wavy, shiny, psycho-structures. The EMP in Seattle is a museum of rock-and-roll, but even if you don’t like rock music, you’ll want to see Gehry’s rebellious design for the building.
Learn more > Frank Gehry, Architecture Portfolio of Selected Works
Celebrate Wright’s Guggenheim Museum
With a six-story spiraling ramp, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum is a hallmark example of hemicycle design. At the center, an open rotunda offers views of artwork on several levels. Wright, who was known for his self-assurance, said that his goal was to “make the building and the painting an uninterrupted, beautiful symphony such as never existed in the World of Art before.”
The circular building seems as revolutionary today as it did when the museum first opened on October 21, 1959.
Explore Wright’s New York Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibition at the Guggenheim >>
Eisenman’s Chilling Memorial
Who is Peter Eisenman? Is he a “Structuralist”? A “Deconstructionist”? A “Postmodern theorist”? The venerable architect may be difficult to classify, but his works demand attention.
Eisenman’s Berlin Holocaust Memorial (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) is both abstract and chilling. Composed of 2,711 enormous stone slabs, the Berlin memorial opened in 2005 and continues to stir controversy.
Fleeting Greatness in London
The best modern architecture in London is temporary. Every summer since 2000, Serpentine Gallery has commissioned world-famous architects to design pavilions on the grounds near the Gallery building. At the end of the season, patrons can purchase the structures for their own use.
You can explore these temporary structures every summer at Serpentine Gallery—for free.
Join us for a year-by-year photo tour of all the Serpentine Gallery pavilions >>
Moshe Safdie’s Yad Vashem
Winner of the AIA’s highest honor—the Gold Medal—architect Moshe Safdie has designed landmark structures around the world. His Yad Vashem Holocaust History Museum in Jerusalem is a must-see destination for tourists and heads of state alike.
The Colorful Quai Branly
In 2006, architect Jean Nouvel used color to dramatize the diverse collection housed in the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, France. He also played architectural tricks with glass walls, shifting ceiling heights, spiral staircases, and concealed lights.