Spirit of the age

By Nicola Turner 1999-07-01T00:00:00

Between 1981 and 1995 France alone saw 400 museums created or renovated. The 1990s have witnessed the reinvention of the museum as a celebration of national culture and barometer of economic wealth, as architects from Frank Gehry and Renzo Piano to Steven Holl and Daniel Libeskind have been inspired to ...

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