Deutsches Architekturmuseum

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Other forms of name
Architecture Museum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Deutsches Architektur Museum
Deutsches Architektur-Museum zur Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie
Frankfurt Architecture Museum
German Architecture Museum
German Museum of Architecture
Musée allemand d'architecture
D. A. M. (Deutsches Architekturmuseum)
DAM (Deutsches Architekturmuseum)
Coordinates
8.6773143 8.6773143 50.104975 50.104975 (gooearth )
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 146095120
Wikidata: Q885179
Library of congress: n 82140463
Sources of Information
  • Jahrbuch für Architektur, 1980 (a.e.)t.p. (Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main)
  • Schriften zur Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie. Wilhelm, K. Walter Gropius, Industriearchitekt, c1983: ser. t.p. (Deutsches Architekturmuseum; DAM)
  • Nouveaux plaisirs d'architecture, c1985:t.p. (Deutsches Architekturmuseum de Francfort) p. 12 (Musée allemand d'architecture; 43 Schaumainkai, 6000 Frankfurt, GFR)
  • Klotz, H. 20th century architecture, 1989:t.p. (Deutschen Architekturmuseums, Frankfurt am Main) p. 8 (German Architecture Museum; came into existence in 1979)
  • Paper architecture, 1990:prelim. leaf (Deutsches Architektur Museum) p. 9 (Deutsches Architekturmuseum)
  • Schriften des Deutschen Architektur-Museums zur Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie. Baumeister im Profil, c1991:ser. t.p. (... Deutschen Architektur-Museums zur Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie, DAM, Deutsches Architektur-Museum Frankfurt am Main)
  • Revision of the modern, 1986:t.p. (Frankfurt Architecture Museum; Architecture Museum, Frankfurt)
  • Embassies, c2000:t.p. (German Museum of Architecture, Frankfurt/Main)

Wikipedia description:

The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (English: German Architecture Museum), or DAM, is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as a set of "elemental Platonic buildings within elemental Platonic buildings". It houses a permanent exhibition entitled "From Ancient Huts to Skyscrapers" which displays the history of architectural development in Germany. The museum organises several temporary exhibitions every year, as well as conferences, symposia and lectures. It has a collection of ca. 180,000 architectural drawings and 600 models, including works by modern and contemporary classics like Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Archigram and Frank O. Gehry. It also includes a reference library with approximately 25,000 books and magazines.

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