Exploration of Art Museum Architecture: Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Guggenheim (NYC), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Guggenheim (Bilbao). Recent examples of San Francisco Bay area art museums (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, de Young Museum, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Berkeley Art Museum).

1. The Gallery is Never Empty
Museums of Contemporary Art
1939-Present
25 November 2013
Carol Reif, Architect
LEED AP

2. Museum of Modern Art
 Opening Date November 7, 1929
 Opening at Current Location May 10, 1939
 Architects Philip Goodwin and
Edward Durrel Stone
 Additions/Renovations Philip Johnson (1951, 1964)
Architects Cesar Pelli (1984)
Yoshiro Taniguchi (2004)

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11. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
 Opening Date October 21, 1959
 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright
 Addition/Renovation Gwathmey Siegel and
Architects Associates (1992)

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19. Le Centre Pompidou
Opening Date January 31, 1977
Architect Renzo Piano
Norman Foster
Renovation Architects Gae Aulenti (1999)

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24. Le Centre Pompidou
Colors have been used to decorate
the structure, using a "code"
defined by the architects:
- blue for circulating air
(air conditioning);
- yellow for circulating electricity;
- green for circulating water;
- red for circulating people
(escalators and lifts).

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27. The Guggenheim Museum-Bilbao
 Opening Date October 19, 1997
 Architect Frank O. Gehry

28. The Guggenheim Museum-Bilbao

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39. The Guggenheim Museum-Bilbao

40. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 Opening Date January 18, 1935
 Opening at Current Location January 18, 1995
 Architect Mario Botta
HOK
 Additions/Renovations Jensen Architects (2009)
Architects Snøhetta-Craig Dykers (2016)
ehdd

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2016

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2016

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2016

53. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2016

54. de Young Museum
 Opening Date March 24, 1895
 Opening at Current Location October 15, 2005
 Architect Herzog & de Meuron
Fong & Chan

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63. Contemporary Jewish Museum
Opening Date June 8, 2008
Architect Daniel Libeskind Studio
WRNS Studio, Architectural
Resources Group

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70. Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
Opening Date November 7, 1970
Architect Mario Ciampi
New Building Diller Scofidio+Renfro (2015)
Architects ehdd (2015)

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77. Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
2016

78. Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
2016