Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design

Georgia Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Design at the University of Tasmania. Her research focuses on the human experience of architecture, with a special interest in museums. She is author of The User Perspective on Twenty-First-Century Art Museums (2016) and co-editor with Lusi Morhayim of Revisiting "Social Factors": Advancing Research into People and Place (2015). She earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Introduction – Georgia Lindsay

I: ICONS: Interrogating spectacle and design






Iconic or Engaging? Beyond the Spectacle – Elizabeth Ann Macgregor



The Power of Star Architecture and Iconic Design: Kunsthaus Graz, Austria – Johannes Dreher, Nadia Alaily-Mattar, and Alain Thierstein



Transformational architecture as urban catalyst: Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, municipal policy, and the Cultural Renaissance – Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller
II: INVITATIONS: Design with communities in mind




Designing with Community for Revitalization: A Creative Hub at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, US – Ann Baier Lambson



Making an Urban Living Room: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, US – Megan Lykins Reich



Museum as Place-maker – Kerstin Thompson



Design for Citizenship: North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, US – Daniel P. Gottlieb
III: EXPERIENCES: Understanding and reimagining design inside




The Open and Integrated Museum – William Smart



Building Citizens – Building Museums: Royal Ontario Museum and Art Gallery of Ontario – Matt Patterson



Experience and Meaning in Museums – Helen Norrie



Planning Art Museums from Inside-out: Design for Visitor Experiences – İpek Kaynar Rohloff



Illuminating History: The Mosegaard Museum in Aarhus, Denmark – Jade Polizzi
IV: BODIES and MINDS: Designing for inclusion




A Sensory Place for All – Meredith Banasiak



Understanding Museum Architecture from Disability Experience: Pavilion of Knowledge, Lisbon, Portugal – Caroline Van Doren, Peter-Willem Vermeersch, and Ann Heylighen



Body Conscious Design in Museums – Galen Cranz and Chelsea Rushton
V: SUSTAINABILITIES: Green design for new museums




Triple Bottom Line Sustainable Design: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West in Arizona, US – Christiana Moss and Christopher Alt



Less Energy, More Stability: Passive Building Principles for Collection- and Visitor-Friendly Net-Zero and Net-Positive Buildings, and a proposal for the Museum of Energy – Jonathan Bean



Bringing nature into place: Green Roofs as Place Makers in Museum Architecture – Angela Loder