Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reisinger collection of Central and Northern European art, was inadequate. A lack of climate control and a problem with housing the museum's growing need for space prompted Harvard to consider building a new museum for the collection. Yesterday, the plans for the new structure were unveiled at the Fogg in a special exhibit, The New Building for the Busch-Reisinger Museum: Plans and Drawings by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates...
...Fogg Art Museum...
...structure will not only house the Busch-Reisinger works, but will also blend with the Fogg and Sackler Museums without blurring the collection's distinctive character...
...prints of the proposed architectural plans, including two exterior-view prints hand-colored with pencils, two samples of materials to be used in the building and a cardboard scale model of the new museum. Although the exhibit is not similar to the retrospectives and theme collections the Fogg usually displays, the scrupulously plotted plans of the building are aesthetically interesting, and possibly fascinating to those interested in architecture...
...prints show the new building from five different angles, floor by floor like a large layer cake. They show the future locations of the new Fine Arts Library reading room, the new galleries and display rooms and the renovations to be made in the Fogg. The two large colored prints show what the new museum should look like on the outside: squarely angular and covered with square slate and pink granite tiles arranged strategically. Samples of the tiles themselves are displayed nearby...