Detail View: SHIMMER: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)

Title: 
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Caption: 
(Museum of Contemporary Art)
Creation Date: 
1995
Image Date: 
1995
Period: 
20th century
Location: 
Barcelona
Country: 
SPAIN
Display Creator: 
MEIER, Richard
Image ID: 
96-0027
Description: 
Museum of Contemporary Art - interior view. The museum is dedicated to works from the second half of the 20th century. "The MACBA, designed by American architect Richard Meier, has a longitudinal floor plan with a 120 x 35 m base, in which a circular piece that serves to articulate exhibition space, is vertically inserted, passing through all four floors. Richard Meier's architecture is clearly based on rationalism and alludes to the masters of Modern Architecture, particularly Le Corbusier, by combining straight and curved lines to establish a dialogue between interior space and exterior illumination which filters into the galleries through large skylights ...." - information on the museum's website.
Rights: 
© Sheffield Hallam University
Permissions: 
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
Photographed by: 
member of staff
Creator: 
MEIER, Richard
Creator Dates - Born: 
1934
Creator Role: 
Architect.
Culture Gender: 
Male.
Nationality: 
American.
Subject Heading: 
Art museums -- Spain -- Barcelona
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- Spain -- Barcelona
Subject Heading: 
Architecture -- 1900-2000
Subject Heading: 
Modernism (Architecture)