Building Types Exhibition
Below are some useful links about Exhibition on Building Types:
See also:- Reference: Museums (5,714)
| Art Galleries and Museums - Information on the architect, location, date, construction system, context and style of a world selection from Great Buildings Online. |
| The British Museum: History - The official site gives a history and an historic image of the buildings at its core designed by Sir Robert and Sidney Smirke and erected between the 1820s and 1850s. |
| The Crystal Palace - Computer models of this Victorian marvel designed by Joseph Paxton from the University of Virginia, with an illustrated account of its history and construction. |
| The Crystal Palace Foundation - Group dedicated to preserving the history of the Crystal Palace, who have created a museum on the site. Includes images and a history of the building after the Great Exhibition closed in October 1851. |
| Exhibition and Exposition - Great Buildings Online provides images and information on a selection of buildings in Europe, North American and Japan designed for exhibition purposes. |
| The Israel Museum, Jerusalem - The Shrine of the Book, erected in 1965 for the preservation and exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Brief illustrated history of this remarkable building designed by American-Jewish architects A.Bartos and F. Kiesler. |
| Kunsthaus Graz - An extraordinary exhibition hall in Austria designed by London architects Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. Includes images and description of the "friendly alien" design. |
| The Natural History Museum: History and Architecture - An illustrated outline from the official site of the remarkable Victorian buildings in South Kensington, designed by Waterhouse and decorated with carvings of animals and plants. |
| ArchitectureWeek: Foster and Partners Roof the Great Court - Don Barker explains the history of the great neoclassical British Museum designed by Robert Smirke in the context of the new steel and glass roof. (February 14, 2001) |