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Coop Himmelb(l)au, Musee des Confluences, Lyon - Opus 79 (French, English, Hardcover)
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Coop Himmelb(l)au, Musee des Confluences, Lyon - Opus 79 (French, English, Hardcover)
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Since the end of the 20th century, an unprecedented number of
remarkable museums have been built. None have had bigger worldwide
implications than Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
(199197). Until, that is, the new Musee des Confluences in Lyon was
opened to the public, in late 2014. It was created by Wolf D. Prix
of the Coop Himmelb(l)au team, which was founded in the 1970s. Many
avant-garde groups from those wild years such as Archigram,
Superstudio, Archizoom, Haus-Rucker-Co, and the Japanese
Metabolists are now consigned to the past, but the Coop
Himmelb(l)au architecture firm, whose special aspiration was always
to bring into the world buildings that overcome the pull of the
earth buildings 'to float on the horizon like clouds' is more in
demand than ever. The finest demonstration of this endeavour to
date can now be admired in Lyon. Functioning as a museum of human
history, this impressive concrete, metal and glass colossus truly
does appear to float above the peninsula at the confluence of the
Rhone and the Saone. Like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, this new
building, so impossible to overlook, is an inspiration for the
revita-lisation of disrupted urban areas and the valorisation of
derelict industrial areas within the city precincts, but also far
beyond Lyon. This Opus volume deals with the origins, construction,
function and formal appearance of the Musee des Confluences, and
also offers a preliminary theoretically based evaluation of the
architecture of the building. Frank R. Werner was professor of
history and architecture theory at the Staatliche Akademie der
Bildenden Kunste Stuttgart from 1990 until 1994 and director of the
Institut fur Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie at the
Bergische Universitat in Wuppertal from 1993 until his retirement
in 2012. He studied painting, architecture and history of
architecture in Mainz, Hanover and Stuttgart. Christian Richters
studied communication design at the Folkwang-schule in Essen. He is
one of the most sought-after architecture photographers in Europe.
To date he has been represented in the Opus series by 14 volumes,
including ones about the embassies of the Nordic countries and the
Bode Museum in Berlin, the Nieuwe Luxor Theater in Rotterdam and
the BMW Welt in Munich. See also: Opus 66. Coop Himmelb(l)au, BMW
Welt, Munchen, Edition Axel Menges 2009.
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