New Museums

A survey of 27 innovative new museums around the world by internationally prominent architects such as Herzog + de Meuron, Steven Holl, Renzo Piano and Yoshio Taniguchi, among others
Documents a wide range of museums serving many functions and includes research centres, memorials, contemporary galleries and small museums devoted to single collectors
High-profile projects, including the Great Court at the British Museum, London, by Foster + Partners; the Rosenthal Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Zaha Hadid; and the Jewish Museum, Berlin, by Daniel Libeskind
Each project is presented in depth with superior colour photographs of exteriors and interiors, plans, drawings, and descriptive text by a widely published architecture critic
Includes projects in Western Europe, the United States, Israel and Japan

Raul A Barreneche, a New York-based editor and critic, has been writing about architecture and design for more than 10 years. A former executive editor at Architecture, he writes regularly for The New York Times. He is currently a contributing editor to Metropolitan Home, Travel + Leisure and Architectural Record, and has written for Dwell, House Beautiful, i-D, ELLE Décor, Interior Design and Wallpaper* and other publications. Barreneche is co-author of House: American Houses for the New Century (2001), and author of Tropical Modern (2003).