Communications to the Trustees Volume 1-2 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...II. "At the present time a new and flexible architecture without a special style has begun to arise. Architects are preparing to abandon the worship of the facade. On the other hand, the functions of museum have developed. They are no longer storehouses, they mean to make their possessions effective through tasteful installment, they intend no longer to be promenades but to invite to restful sojourn. They have use for reading and study and lecture rooms and various other apartments which no one thought of at the time of the earliest buildings, about 1820. Most great museums, alas, already have their buildings; but smaller museums in great numbers will be founded or need to be rebuilt. Hence it is worth while to refer to certain items of general experience that should not be forgotten." "Museums as organisms are still in course of development. No one can say what our smaller museums as agencies of culture will effect, or what a more enlightened public is going to demand of them in future. It is impossible to provide to-day for the unknown needs of the future. Hence we should not make the demands of to-day decisive for all time by a rigid ground plan. It has been the misfortune of nearly all museum buildings hitherto that not even the most superficial provision has been made for the future. As a rule they have been already too small even when first occupied; nor could anything be done about it, for the four facades have enclosed a fixed ground plan, admitting of no additions." "For a museum that is to be active and effective, the facade is practically nothing, the interior everything.... When interior needs are satisfied, then we may devote to architectural effect whatever can be so expended without detriment, but to make the architec...