New Military Museums

Museum architecture has blossomed overthe past few decades. Art museums lead theway in terms of new buildings by superstar architectssuch as Frank Gehry, Herzog and de Meuron,Jean Nouvel, and Renzo Piano, among manymore. Those facilities have received public andprofessional recognition through media attentionand design awards. But other museum typologiesexist, one such being for buildings that showcasemilitary history and artifacts. All too often, onethinks of these as unsophisticated in their designand amateurish or antiquated in their exhibitions.Nowadays, nothing can be further from the tru th.This volume examines more than thirty of them internationallythat were constructed over the pasttwo decades and more. The museums are featuredin individual entries and lavish color photography.Some were designed by internationallyrenowned architects such as Norman Foster, DanielLibeskind, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, andRobert A. M. Stern, but many more are the productsof creative,...