Victoria Newhouse Knihy

Since first publication in 1998, Towards a New Museum has achieved iconic status as a seminal exploration of the late-20th-century revolution in museum architecture: the transformation from museum as restrained container for art to museum as exuberant companion to art. Author Victoria Newhouse critiqued numerous institutions for the display of art opened in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, culminating in Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao and Richard Meier's Getty Center in Los Angeles. In this expanded edition, she continues her investigation of new museums, assessing the radical, 21st-century changes that have propelled Herzog & de Meuron's De Young Museum in San Francisco and SANAA's 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, to the forefront of this building type

The book explores the ambitious project initiated by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to create a cultural center in Athens, which would include the Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House set within a public park. However, the narrative takes a dramatic turn as the Greek economy collapses shortly after the project's commencement, raising questions about the future of cultural investments amid economic turmoil. The juxtaposition of artistic aspiration and financial crisis forms a compelling backdrop for the unfolding story.

Scholars, advocates, and architects assess America s affordable housing crisis and suggest various strategies to rectify it, including numerous images of important, recently built houses and complexes.

Victoria Newhouse, noted author and architectural historian, addresses the aesthetics and acoustics in concert halls and opera houses of the past, present, and future in this stunning companion to the highly regarded Towards a New Museum. Site and Sound explores the daunting, perennial question: Does the music serve the space, or the other way around? Heavily illustrated throughout—with historic images, spectular color photographs, detailed drawings—this volume is an informed and enjoyable presentation of a building type that is at the heart of cities small and large. Newhouse starts with a survey of venues from ancient Greek and Roman times and progresses to contemporary works around the world. She singles out Lincoln Center in particular for its long history and its transitions and remodelings over the years. Two major chapters cover the present: one focuses on recent work in the West, including the National Opera House of Norway in Oslo by Snøhetta (2008), the Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal, by Rem Koolhaas (2005), and many more; the second examines the boom in concert halls in China. A final chapter looks at projects that are currently planned and the future of an architecture for music.

Betr. u.a. Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Renzo Piano), Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel (Mario Botta), Sammlung Goetz, München (Herzog und de Meuron)