Building Type Basics for Museums (Building Type Basics) | 
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| Author: Arthur Rosenblatt
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 258421
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471349151
Dewey Decimal Number: 727.6
EAN: 9780471349150
ASIN: 0471349151
Publication Date: January 1, 2001
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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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 Not as Advertised June 27, 2007
All this book does is show examples of built museums... these are not case studies. There is no investigation/analysis/questioning of what was built and why. It only gives you a small amount of information about the many museums we are already familiar with, and shows plans and drawings that are either too small or irrelevant. I would only use this to become familiar with some of the worlds modern museums, but you could also just find that on the internet. Beyond the case studies there is nothing else, no narrative, no discussion of specific program issues, no technical discussion of lighting, acoustics, way finding, etc. etc. Truly a joke unfortunately. Do not buy this if you actually want to learn about how to properly plan and design a museum.
 Not good when compared to other books in the "Building Type Basics" series December 15, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
 Insightful book May 13, 2003
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
A well written, must have volume for all involved in museum planning, design, architecture, and related fields.
splendid new design resource July 16, 2001
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
comprehensive volume providing detailed information on the design of museum and cultural facilities. vast amount of information.
an important museum resource July 14, 2001
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
a major source of vital information in the design of museums.
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