The best new museum building America has seen in years opened last week in San Francisco, amid relentless social fanfare: the city's much awaited-and badly needed-Museum of Modern Art. Since 1935, Bay Area art lovers have had to content themselves with the old SFMOMA, a makeshift affair housed in the Beaux Arts-style War Veterans' Memorial Building and so cramped that the permanent collection had to be taken down whenever a temporary show went up. In 1990 designs for a new building were made public. It would cost $60 million, all in private money, and the architect was an Italian-Swiss little known...
A SOARING WELL OF LIGHT
MARIO BOTTA DESIGNS AN ELEGANT MUSEUM FOR SAN FRANCISCO. NOW THE INSTITUTION MUST LIVE UP TO ITS NEW ENVIRONS
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