Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Preferred Title:
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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Alternate Title:
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SFMOMA
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Image View:
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Detail, depicting where the brick meets the stripes of back and white marble
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Creator:
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Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum (American architectural firm, established 1955); Mario Botta (Swiss architect, born 1943)
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Location:
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site: San Francisco, California, United States
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Location Note:
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151 Third Street
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Date:
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1992-1995 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Postmodern
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Work Type 1:
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art museum
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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brick; steel
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; contemporary (1960 to present); Art museums; banding
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-BO-SFM-A6
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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