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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 238 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Analyzes the collision of architecture and culture in the controversial realm of contemporary museum design since the opening of the Pompidou Centre in 1977. The author assesses the extent to which architects satisfy the requirements of the modern museum." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The museum impossible; Paris: the palace of pleasure; The museum after Pompidou: imperialism, populism, contradiction; Adding, reclaiming, revising: the museum grows; The antimuseum: alternatives; The museum in the next century; The billion-dollar painting and beyond. Size: 4to. Collectible.…