Museum Planning and Design
with E. Verner Johnson
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Aug 8-9, 2000, Boston Massachusetts
As museums enter the 21st century, they continue to increase in
variety, complexity, and specialization. Favorable economic
conditions, advancing technologies, and shifting demographics have
produced both new museum types and larger collections requiring
specialized care. Audiences are more diverse and visitors have
increasing visual and experiential sophistication.
This course presents planning and design approaches that recognize
and enhance museums' abilities to function intelligently while
creating unique built expressions of their missions.
This course is geared toward architects and museum leadership
involved with the planning and design of new, renovated, or expanded
museum buildings. It addresses: (1) creating a comprehensive museum
master plan (what it is and how it is done); (2) selecting the proper
consultants at the proper time; (3) selecting an appropriate site and
using its attributes to enhance a museum's image/visibility; (4)
facility programming and building organization concepts; (5)
providing enjoyable and effective patterns for visitor orientation
and circulation; (6) planning appropriate free/paid zone transition
points; (7) lighting design and natural light; (8) technical design
issues particular to museums (special systems for HVAC, power,
lighting, security, building structure, and fire protection); (9)
exhibition master planning (what it is and how it is done); (10)
collaborating with exhibit designers as part of the building design
process; and (11) controlling moisture migration in museum spaces.
Case studies for art, science, and history museums will be presented
and discussed as part of this course.
Faculty:
Verner Johnson, AIA, and Tom Troller, AIA, are partners at E. Verner
Johnson and Associates, Inc. Boston, an architectural and planning
firm that has specialized in museums since 1965.
As founder of the firm, Mr. Johnson has been engaged in over 140
museum projects worldwide. He has spoken at conferences sponsored by
the American Association of Museums and the Association of Science
and Technology Centers, lectures regularly for Harvard's Museum
Studies Program, and speaks at the Institute for New Science Centers.
Tom Troller has worked closely with Mr. Johnson on museum planning
and design projects for more than 16 years. He has most recently been
involved in the comprehensive master planning and programming for
expansions to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, the
High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Wexner Center for the Arts at
Ohio State University.
Guest speakers:
Andrew F. Merriell, principal, Gerard Hilferty & Associates, Inc.,
Athens, Ohio, has been manager, over the past 20 years, of more than
30 exhibit planning and design projects, including collaboration with
E. Verner Johnson and Associates on several major museums, such as
the Kentucky Derby Museum, the South Carolina State Museum, the
Cincinnati Museum of History, the Public Museum of Grand Rapids, and
the Great Lakes Science Center.
Kevin B. Cash, principal, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc., Structural
and Conservation Engineers, MA and San Francisco, is one of the
nation's foremost experts in the investigation, remediation, and
control of moisture migration in museums, libraries, and speciality
structures.
For more information please contact me or see the GSD web site:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/profdev/
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Guy Hermann
Museum Planner
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Verner Johnson & Associates
Museum Architects & Planners
http://www.vernerjohnson.com
voice: 617-437-6262
fax: 617-437-1272
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