Designed by the internationally renowned Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, winners of the 2001 Pritzker Prize, the new de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is an architectural tour de force. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, plans, drawings and models, this book traces the architects' creative process, documenting a complex five-year project that has resulted in an outstanding contribution to contemporary museum architecture.
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Designed by the internationally renowned Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron, winners of the 2001 Pritzker Prize, the new de Young Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is an architectural tour de force. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, plans, drawings and models, this book traces the architects' creative process, documenting a complex five-year project that has resulted in an outstanding contribution to contemporary museum architecture.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Size: 10x10x0; With 200 illustrations, 191 in color. The binding is clean and tight with light shelf wear. One small corner chip and a faint red stain to bottom text block edge. Text and images unmarked. 4to. 208pp.
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Seller's Description:
F/F. 0884011143. Fine in a fine DJ. Brown cloth.; The Swiss firm of Herzog & de Meuron designed the new de Young in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco with this book published on the occasion of the opening of the new museum.; 8vo; 208 p.
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Published:
2005
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17967457565
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Seller's Description:
VG+ Black and illustrated dust jacket, black cloth boards with copper stamped spine titles. 208 pp. 200 illustrations, 191 in color. "Lavishly illustrated with color photographs as well as plans, drawing and models, the book traces the architects' creative process in striking detail." Pubished on the occasion of the re-opening of the de Young in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, October 2005. A fascinating case study in urban planning and design. --jacket.
