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Two Museums
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Two Museums

Jan 22, 2014
0h 17m
★ 5.5

Overview

The film juxtaposes/compares two museums: The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, which Samuel Bickels (1909-1975) built there in 1948, and The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, built by Renzo Piano (b. 1937) 1986 . The method of natural lighting in Bickels‘s construction was the direct model for Piano, who adopted for his construction at the request of its patroness Dominique de Menil.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Filmgalerie 451

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