Victoria Newhouse Bücher

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

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.

The last thirty years of the twentieth century witnessed the emergence of over six hundred art museums in the United States, paralleled by similar growth in Europe. Iconic structures like Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao and Richard Meier's Getty Center in Los Angeles have captured global media attention. The success or failure of these museums, assessed through aesthetic, educational, and financial lenses, is largely influenced by their architectural design. Architectural historian Victoria Newhouse critically examines established beliefs surrounding museum design, revealing that many new museums are rooted in outdated concepts. Her analysis, enriched by interviews with museum directors, curators, collectors, artists, and architects, categorizes museums by their defining traits: private collections, single-artist museums, sacred spaces, artists' self-created sites, and museum expansions. Alongside the Getty and Guggenheim, Newhouse explores notable institutions such as the Menil Collection in Houston, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation in Marfa, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Grand Louvre, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among others.