文档介绍：Case Study:
Milwaukee Art Museum
ARCH 631: Structural Systems
Prof. Anne Nichols
Aaron M. Vorwerk
Contents
The Milwaukee Art Museum
The Architect
The Quadracci Pavilion
Design Concept
Building Layout
Structural Features
Summary
The Milwaukee Art Museum
• Began with Layton Art Gallery (1888) and Milwaukee Art Institute (1918)
• Joined to form Milwaukee Art Center in 1957 and moved into new Eero
Saarinen-designed building on Milwaukee waterfront
The Milwaukee Art Museum
• Museum collection continued to expand throughout the 1980s and ’90s
• Attendance increased dramatically, approaching 200,000 annual visitors
• Both factors prompted consideration of an expansion
• Looking for a strong architectural statement, museum officials turned to
architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava in 1994
• Calatrava’s design was unveiled in March 1996, receiving an
enthusiastic response from the community
• The Quadracci Pavilion was completed in October 2001, becoming the
first building constructed by Calatrava in the United States
The Milwaukee Art Museum
The Architect
• Santiago Calatrava was born in Valencia, Spain in 1951
• He earned a degree in architecture from Escuela Tecnica Superior de
Arquitectura in Valencia
• He then pursued studies in the field of civil engineering, completing a
. from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland in
1979
The Architect
• Calatrava began entering design competitions to gain recognition
• His first winning design was the Stadelhofen Railway Station (Zurich,
1983)
• As he gained commissions, he opened a second office (Paris) in 1989,
and then a third (Valencia) in 1991
• The Milwaukee Art Museum expansion became his first major project
built in the United States in 2001
• Calatrava earned Time Magazine’s “Best of 2001” award and the
International Illumination Design Award of Merit for his work