Museum fur Kunsthandwerk, Richard Meier / Michael Brawne.
By: Brawne, Michael
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Contributor(s): Meier, Richard | Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt am Main.
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BookSeries: Architecture in detail (London, England): Publisher: London : Phaidon Press, 1992Description: [60] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30cm + pbk.ISBN: 0714827657 u.Subject(s): Meier, Richard, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation | Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt am Main | Art museum architecture -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main | Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Germany -- Frankfurt am Main | Frankfurt am Main (Germany) -- BuildingsDDC classification: 727.7
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 727.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00072674 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Frankfurt Museum for Decorative Arts is one of Richard Meier's major buildings of the 1980s. This book looks at this building which is based on Le Corbusier's Purist syntax and sets out from two existing geometries found on the site: the cube formed by the Villa Metzler (an earlier neo-classical pavilion, incorporated by Meier into the new design) and the slightly skew angle between the museum site and the riverbank. From these origins Meier created a building consisting of shifted grids, superimposed planes, reverse curves and ramps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [58-59]).