Museums for a New Millennium Concepts Projects Buildings,   ISBN:9783791322193

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26 museums in 180 color and 220 B&W illustrations - mostly color photos, but also plans, sections, elevations, hard line presentation drawings, renderings, etc. in beautiful colors or B&W on glossy paper, brief project descriptions.
CONTENTS:
7 Preface
9 Foreword
11 The Architecture of Art: The Museum of the 1990s
15 A Museum Explosion: Fragments of an Overview
ARTIST STATEMENTS
28 John M. Armleder
30 Katharina Fritsch
32 Gerhard Marz
THE MUSEUMS
34 Norman Foster, Carré d'Art, Nîmes
42 Richard Meier, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
50 Oswald Mathias Ungers, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg
56 Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
62 Vittorio Gregotti, Manuel Salgado, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
68 Álvaro Siza Vieira, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
76 Mario Botta, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
84 Rem Koolhaas, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
92 Ricardo Legorreta, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey
100 Daniel Libeskind, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin
108 Aldo Rossi, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
116 Peter Zumthor, Kunsthaus Bregenz
124 Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
132 Josef Paul Kleihues, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
140 José Rafael Moneo, Moderna Museet/Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm
146 Jean Nouvel, Fondation Cartier, Paris
154 Renzo Piano, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
162 Santiago Calatrava, Milwaukee Art Museum
168 Giorgio Grassi, Neues Museum, Berlin, 1st Competition
174 David Chipperfield, Neues Museum, Berlin, 2nd Competition
180 Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, Tate Modern, London
188 Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Museo de las Cuevas de Altamira, Santillana del Mar
194 Tadao Ando, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
200 Steven Holl, Bellevue Art Museum
208 Zaha Hadid, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
214 Biographies and Selected Bibliographies

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Good book about contemporer museum design, from the leading architect around the world, concept and theory discussed