New Mexico State Museums
Triangular Court
New Mexico Museum of Art
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings
The exhibition opens on Friday, January 29, 2010 and will run through April 18, 2010.
Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Daniel Libeskind, Tadao Ando, Spacelab’s (Peter Cook/Colin Fournier), Rafael Viñoly, and Yoshio Taniguchi are members of a pantheon of architects regarded for their original, innovative, and groundbreaking designs. In common, they were all commissioned between 2000 and 2010 to design museums – some realized, others in progress, and a few indefinitely on hold.
The first ten years of the 21st century witnessed the apex internationally for the commissioning of museum buildings by star architects, such as these. The many new museum buildings, renovations, and/or expansions taking place all over the world interested the director of the Art Centre Basel, Suzanne Greub, who then developed the exhibition Museums of the 21st Century, opening at the New Mexico Museum of Art on Friday, January 29, 2010.
Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan, 2004, Triangular Court © Tadao Ando photo by Mitsuo Matsuoka
Triangular Court
New Mexico Museum of Art
Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings
The exhibition opens on Friday, January 29, 2010 and will run through April 18, 2010.
Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Daniel Libeskind, Tadao Ando, Spacelab’s (Peter Cook/Colin Fournier), Rafael Viñoly, and Yoshio Taniguchi are members of a pantheon of architects regarded for their original, innovative, and groundbreaking designs. In common, they were all commissioned between 2000 and 2010 to design museums – some realized, others in progress, and a few indefinitely on hold.
The first ten years of the 21st century witnessed the apex internationally for the commissioning of museum buildings by star architects, such as these. The many new museum buildings, renovations, and/or expansions taking place all over the world interested the director of the Art Centre Basel, Suzanne Greub, who then developed the exhibition Museums of the 21st Century, opening at the New Mexico Museum of Art on Friday, January 29, 2010.
Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan, 2004, Triangular Court © Tadao Ando photo by Mitsuo Matsuoka