This exhibition and its accompanying book present a cross-section of the most significant, expressive and high-quality museum structures and projects that have been designed and built within the last 10 years of the 20th century. Obviously every selection is fragmentary and, to a certain degree, incomplete. The curators have concentrated upon the finest of contemporary museum architecture, presenting therein not always the most handsome examples of this architectural type, but rather the most emblematic. Above all, they should be representative of architectural currents, urban or rural sites, dimensions and cultural demands. The 25 selected examples - all key works of renowned, internationally active architects - proffer and excerpt from the complex panorama of the history of museum architecture at the close of the century's last decade, while offering a glance beyond the turn of the millennium.
An Art Centre Basel production.
List of projects:
Norman Foster: Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France, 1984 - 1992
Richard Meier: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1984 - 1997
Oswald Mathias Ungers: Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany, 1986 - 1996
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, USA, 1986 - 1996
Vittorio Gregotti and Manuel Salgado: Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 1988 - 1993
Alvaro Siza Vieira: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 1988 - 1993
Mario Botta: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA, 1989 - 1995
Rem Koolhaas: ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, Competition 1989 (1st Prize), Final Design 1991
Ricardo Legorreta: MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 1989 - 1991
Daniel Libeskind: Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany, 1989 - 1999
Aldo Rossi: Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1990 - 1995
Peter Zumthor: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria, 1990 - 1997
Jean Nouvel: Fondation Cartier, Paris, France, 1991 - 1994
Josef Paul Kleihues: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1991 - 1996
Frank O. Gehry: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, 1991 - 1997
José Rafael Moneo: Moderna Museet/Arkitekturmuseet, Skeppsholmen/Stockholm, Sweden, 1991 - 1998
Renzo Piano: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland, 1992 - 1997
Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron: Tate Modern, London, UK, 1994 - 2000
Santiago Calatrava: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 1994 - 2001
Giorgio Grassi: Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany, (Project) 1st Competition 1994 (1st Prize)
Juan Navarro Baldeweg: Museo de las Cuevas de Altamira, Santillana del Mar, Spain, 1995 - 2001
Steven Holl: Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA, 1997 - 2000
Tadao Ando: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 1997 - 2002
David Chipperfield: Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany, 2nd Competition 1997 (1st Prize), since 1997
Zaha Hadid: The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, since 1998
