CONTENTS Foreword 9 The Museum as Institution 13 Treasure Chamber, Workplace, Collection Room Art Galleries and the Public Art and Cultural History Museums Strategies of Aesthetic Effect Educational Institution or Theme Park? The Museum in Media Society: Responsibilities and Opportunities The Museum as a Building Type-a Historical Survey 19 Gallery and Central Hall Museums as Public Buildings Architecture and Exhibit: Stylistic Coincidence versus Neutrality Between Functional Requirements and Architectural Representation The Semantics of the New Museum Architecture 29 Function and Symbol The Museum as City Form and Function 39 inside and Outside Circulation Spatial Experience and Object Presentation Service Engineering in Museum Buildings 44 Security, Climate Conditioning and Light Herbert Pfeiffer 45 Security Design in Museum Buildings Oliver Hilger 46 Climate in Museums - Conservational Climate Conditioning Gerhard Kahlert 52 Lighting Design in Museums Helmut F.O. MiJller and Hansjiirgen Schmitz Notes 62 Principles of the Museum as a Building Lighting Design in Museums Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 70 James Stirling, Michael Wilford m. Associates Calerie der Cegenwart Hamburg 74 Oswald Mathias Lingers Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht 78 Aldo Rossi Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 80 Josef Paul Kleihues Caere d'Art NTmes 82 Norman Foster and Partners Museum La Congiunta Ciornico 84 Peter Markli Museum of Modern Art San Francisco 86 Maria Botta Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne RudolfSchwarz Museu de Serralves Porto 90 Alvaro Siza Vieira Neue Pinakothek Munich 94 Alexander von Branca Museo Nacional de Arte Romano 96 Merida Jose Rafael Moneo Essl Collection Klosterneuburg 98 Heinz Tesar Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum Alborg 100 Elissa and Alvar Aalto, Jean-Jaques Baruel Museu d'Art Contemporani Barcelona 102 Richard Meier oj Partners Musfe d'Art Moderne et Contemporain 104 Strasbourg Adrien Fainsilber Sprengel Museum Hanover 106 Peter and Ursula Trint/Dieter Quast Museum Ludwig Cologne 108 Peter Busmann and Godfrid Haberer Gemaldegalerie Berlin 110 Heinz Hilmer and Christoph Sattler National Caller/ London, Sainsbury Wing 112 Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates Matrix-like Arrangement of Rooms Kunstsammlung 116 Nordrhein-Westfalen Dusseldorf Ham Dissing and Otto Weitllng Fondation Beyeler Basel 118 Renzo Piano Building Workshop Museum Het Valkhof Nijmegen 122 Ben van Berkel/UN studio Neues Museum Nuremberg 124 Volker Staab Musee de Grenoble 126 Croupe 6 Pinakothek der Moderne Munich 128 Stephan Braunfels Kunstmuseum Bonn 130 Axel Schultes National Gallery of Art, East Wing 134 Washington leoh Ming Pel at Partners Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt 136 Hans Hoilein Museum Abteiberg Mbnchengladbach 138 Hans Hoilein Spatial Interpenet-ration and Spatial Isolation Literature Museum Himeji I and II 144 Tadao Ando Museum of Eastern Asian Art Cologne 146 Kunio Mayekawa Kunsthalle Bielefeld 148 Philip C. Johnson Museum Quadrat and Josef Albers Museum Bottrop 150 Bernhard /Cuppers Van Cogh Museum Amsterdam 152 Cerrit Rietveld,]. van Dillen,J. van Tricht, Kisho Kurokawa Museum fur Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt 154 Richard Meier of Partners Yale Center for British Art New Haven 156 Louis I. Kahn Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth 158 Louis I. Kahn Muse'6 de I'Arles antique 160 Henri Ciriani Kunsthal Rotterdam 162 Rem Koolhaas/OMA Miho Museum Shigaraki 164 leoh Ming Pei <H Partners Louisiana Museum 166 for moderne Kunst Humlebxk Jergen Bo and Vilhelm Wohlert Centre d'art contemporain 168 Vassiviere-en-Llmousin Aldo Rossi Kirchner Museum Davos 170 Annette Gigon and Mike Cuyer Open Plans Centre National d'Art 174 et de Culture Georges Pompidou Paris Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers Mediatheque Sendai 178 Tbyo Ito 6 Associates Schaulager for the Emanuel Hoffmann 180 Foundation Munchenstein/Basel Herzog al. de Meuron newMetropolis. National Centre 182 for Science and Technology Amsterdam Renzv Piano Building Workshop Domus LaCoruna 184 Arala Isozaki / Cesar Portela Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Sibweger t Partner Erzbischofliches Diozesanmuseum Paderborn Cottfried Bohm Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg 190 Man/red Lehmbruck Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bonn Custciv Peichi Fondation Cartier Paris Jean Nouvel / Fmanue/ Cattani Kunsthaus Bregenz Peter Zumthor Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin 198 Ludig Mi'es van der Rohe Palmach Museum of History Tel Aviv 202 Zvi Hecker and Ravi Segal Arken. Museum for Modern Art 204 Copenhagen S0ren Robert Lund judisches Museum Berlin 206 Daniel Libeskind Shrine of the Book Jerusalem 210 Frederickjohn Kiesler and Armand Bartos Milwaukee Art Museum Extension 212 (Quadracci-Pavilion) Santiago Calatrava Museum of Contemporary Art 214 (Kiasma) Helsinki Steven Holl Neanderthal Museum Mettmann 216 CUnter Zamp Kelp Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa 218 Frank O. Genry <% Associates Conversions and Extensions of Architectural Monuments Zentrum fiir Kunst- und 224 Medientechnologie Museum fiir Neue Kunst Karlsruhe Schweger + Partner Tate Modern London 226 Herzog c? de Meuron Class Museum Barnbach 228 Klaus Kada Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin 230 Josef Paul Kleihues Regionalmuseum Korbach 232 Berthold H. Penkhues Museum fiir Sepulkralkultur Kassel 234 Wilhelm Kijcker Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt 236 Oswald Mathias Lingers Expansion of the Cipsoteca Canoviana Possagno 238 Carlo Scarpa Appendix Project Data 240 Bibliography 244 Authors 245 Index of Names 246 Indes of Places 247 Illustration Credits 248