Building Culture: Sixteen Architects on How Museums Are Shaping the Future of Art, Architecture, and Public Space [Hardcover]

Architects and art lovers everywhere will enjoy this remarkable collection of interviews from sixteen of the world's most celebrated, thoughtful, and innovative architects who have designed many of the world’s greatest museums. Spanning generations, geographies, and methods of architectural practice, these architects share the complex and fascinating process of creating spaces for art. Building Culture includes interviews with:​​

• Frank Gehry, who reveals how a half-century of dialogue with the visual arts influenced his revolutionary Guggenheim Bilbao​.
• Kulapat Yantrasast, who describes his rethinking of exhibition design and how it expands the presentation of work in venerable institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he is currently redesigning the galleries for the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas​.
• Walter Hood, whose long interest in improvisational techniques in music informed his design for outdoor performance spaces in the Oakland Museum​.
• Elizabeth Diller, whose conception of the Shed in New York City's Hudson Yards was influenced by decades of work in conceptual and performance art.
• Esteemed architects who have designed, renovated, or created galleries forMoMA, the New Museum, and theAmerican Museum of Natural Historyin New York; theNational Galleryand theTate Modernin London; thePérez Art Museum Miami; theCentrePompidouin Paris, the21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawain Japan; theMuseum of West African Art (currently under const