The Global Spectacular

Contemporary Museum Architecture in China and the Arabian Peninsula

Karen Exell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2018
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84822-249-6 (ISBN)

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This book provides, for the first time, a visual documentation of the wave of 'starchitect'-designed museums under construction in certain Arabian Peninsula states, in China, and in emerging economies such as Azerbaijan and India. It offers a sustained architectural critique of the style of these new museums and suggests they represent a new dynamic in the production of cultural spaces.

Karen Exell argues that projects and finished buildings by the likes of Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry and Norman Foster+Associates are less connected to regional cultural production than to globalized capitalist modernity, and contrasts this globalised aesthetic with the architecture of smaller museums that responds to more traditional regional materials and construction methods. These projects are less well known, but no less striking in their thoughtful and richly contextualised architectural approach, and reveal a nuanced interpretation of the role and function of contemporary museums.

For anyone seeking to understand the profusion of grand architectural projects within the cultural sector of emerging economies, The Global Spectacular provides invaluable insight into the varying socio-economic contexts driving their development and poses vital questions about their likely impact.

Karen Exell is Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Qatar, and a consultant at Qatar Museums. She directed the MA in Museum and Gallery Practice at UCL Qatar from 2011-2015, after teaching museums studies and holding curatorial positions in university museums in the UK for several years.

1. Introduction: Museum Architecture in China and the Arabian Gulf: A brief history of museum architecture; 2. Contemporary Vernacular: Six case studies from China and the Arabian Gulf; 3. The Art of Restoration: Two case studies from the Arabian Gulf; 4. Deep Context: Three case studies from China; 5. From Local to Global: Architectural expansion: moving beyond the local; 6. The Future is Now: The spectacular new and planned museums of the Arabian Gulf and China

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	190 x 250 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-84822-249-1 / 1848222491
ISBN-13	978-1-84822-249-6 / 9781848222496
Zustand	Neuware