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This handsome volume of 100 color and black-and-white photographs, produced largely by the museum's founders, is an exhilarating documentation of a uniquely inverted design process in which a tight budget, the site's status as a national landmark, and the built-in abundance of existing light and space all demanded that the architects subtract more elements than they add. Thus, we're treated to a profusion of before-and-after photos where we can see how a few of the lesser or more far-gone buildings were demolished to create pathways and sight lines for visitors; how others had whole floors knocked out to create cathedral-like, sun-soaked galleries; and how empty, asbestos-scarred former workrooms became light-as-air hosts for massive installations by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg and Mario Merz. The volume is also bookended with essays by MoCA director Joseph Thompson and principle architect Simeon Bruner that narrate the completion of this fascinating architectural jigsaw puzzle in greater detail.
Several photos show the gleaming new galleries, performance spaces, and outdoor courtyards alive with museum-goers--but in so many places, the imposing, time-stained red brick and massive original posts and beams have been left untouched. Their hulking, workaday visibility makes it impossible to forget the site's industrial roots or the thousands of local residents (mostly women) who once labored there--and whose children and grandchildren accounted, fittingly, for a vast majority of the first people to step through the doors of this truly forward-looking nexus of creative and technological potential. --Timothy Murphy
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