COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Alternate Title:
SFMOMA
Image View:
Detail, depicting where the brick meets the stripes of back and white marble
Creator:
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (American architectural firm, established 1955); Mario Botta (Swiss architect, born 1943)
Location:
site: San Francisco, California, United States
Location Note:
151 Third Street
Date:
1992-1995 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Postmodern
Work Type 1:
art museum
Classification:
architecture
Material:
brick; steel
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Art museums; banding
Description:
Botta's design for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, his first museum and the second-largest museum of modern art in the USA, incorporates a series of stepped spaces punctuated by a truncated section of a cylindrical skylight. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Base Collection
Identifier:
1A1-BO-SFM-A6
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
