{"product_id":"sanaa-new-museum-museum-building-guides-paperback","title":"Sanaa: New Museum: Museum Building Guides - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSanaa\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eLisa Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Text by (Art\/Photo Books)), \u003cb\u003eKazuyo Sejima\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the New Museum, long a champion of downtown New York culture and unconventional art, announced that it would build itself a new home on the Bowery--a mostly bleak strip of flophouses and restaurant-supply storefronts--the art world wondered what this move would mean for the museum, and, just as important, how the museum would look. Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA (winners of the 2010 Pritzker Prize) received the commission in 2002; their new New Museum, which opened in December 2007, looks like a dramatic tower of seven rectangular boxes, stacked irregularly atop one another with edges protruding to the sides and front, and clad in a seamless anodized-aluminum mesh that dresses the whole of the building in a delicate, filmy, softly shimmering skin. With windows just visible behind this porous scrimlike surface, the building appears as a single, coherent and even heroic form that is nevertheless mutable, dynamic and animated by the changing light of day--an appropriate visual metaphor for the openness of the New Museum and the ever-changing nature of contemporary art. This monograph treats the institution's design and construction in depth, through images, writings and an interview with the architects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.29 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769692324128,"sku":"9788434312449","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/219bfe57980084b0da104efa238b7a11.webp?v=1780353726","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sanaa-new-museum-museum-building-guides-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}