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
