Building Type Basics for Museums (Building Type Basics) by Arthur Rosenblatt

Building Type Basics for Museums (Building Type Basics)

Features

Cover Type: Hard Cover with 272 pages

Published by: Wiley January 1, 2001

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 0471349151

ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471349150

Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches

Weighs: 1.7 pounds

Product Description
Here's the essential information you need to initiate designs for art, science, and natural history museums, ethnic art and cultural centers, youth museums, and more.

Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details.
Combines in-depth coverage of the structural, mechanical, acoustic, traffic, and safety issues that are unique to museums and cultural facilities with the nuts-and-bolts design guidelines that will start any project off on the right track and keep it there through completion.

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Book Info
An essential guide for architects to the basic design of museum buildings. Filled with project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and other details, this text addresses all of the issues special to museums, such as traffic and safety issues. DLC: Museum buildings--Designs and plans.

Reader Reviews
I own 4 books from Building Type Basics Series. They are Retail Facility, Hospitality Facility, Theater Facility and Museum Facility. So far, I considered this Museum Facility Book as the worst of all 4. For Retail, Hospitality and Theater, these three have a lot of generic information such as historical background of building type, space component, principles of design, etc. They also give a lot of examples based on those generic issues, topic by topic. In this Museum book, it is all about examples with plans and very little background information for each museums. There are a lot of pictures and plans which are not of good quality (I actually didn't expect them to be because it is not the strength of the series). I intended to buy this book (which is expensive) to obtain pure information. I did not get it either. All I can say is, this book is not up to the par with the others in the same series that I own. Comment | | (Report this)

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