The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma : Arata Isozaki
- Title
- The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma : Arata Isozaki / Philip Drew.
- Published by
- London : Phaidon, 1996.
- Author
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- Description
- 60 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm.
- Summary
- Arata Isozaki is one of the most profilic and creative personalities in contemporary architecture. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, arguably the architect's masterwork, was the first in a line of commissions for modern art museums on a world-wide scale. Completed in 1974 it was recently extended by Isozaki in 1994.
- The museum is located in the rural surroundings of the Gunma-no-Mori park, and is the most complete realization by Isozaki of a conceptual architectural approach - a pristine, essential structure composed of an arrangement of cubes taking the form of a large rectangular block with projecting wings. The 1994 addition consists of a cube added to the main entrance facade housing the new Highvision Theatre, and a restaurant which occupies part of the area beneath one of the wings.
- Series statement
- Architecture in detail
- Uniform title
- Architecture in detail (London, England)
- Subject
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 60).