Twentieth-century Museums II

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Part of a series that places buildings within their historical context, this text considers the Museum of Modern Art in Japan, the Clore Gallery and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It includes specially produced technical drawings that explain how the buildings were detailed and put together. By presenting these different museums together in one volume, the reader can examine the varying approaches taken by three different architects in three different continents, to designing for very specific and challenging museum commissions