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seventy architects with international reputations were invited to submit examples of their work for evaluation. Fifty-five responded, a number eventually whittled down to eleven: from the United States, Gunnar Birkerts, Frank O. Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Thorn Mayne, Cesar Pelli, Mack Scogin, and James de Stefano; from Great Britain, Sir Norman Foster; from Spain, Santiago Calatrava; from Japan, Arata Isozaki and Fumihiko Maki. Curiously, in view of his eventual selection, Calatrava had not originally been among the fifty-five, and how he was added is worthy of note. Russell Bowman was paging one day through a heap of architectural periodicals in the office library of Milwaukee architect David Kahler (chief designer of the Bradley addition) when he came upon an article devoted to the work of Calatrava, with which he was not familiar at the time. Reflecting anew on the criteria the museum had lately The Milwaukee Museum of Art is an architectural landmark with three buildings designed by three legendary architects: Eero Saarinen, David Kahler, and Santiago Calatrava. This spectacular volume celebrates the reopening of the museum with its $10 million Quadracci Pavilion; the new addition designed by world-famous Spanish architect, Calatrava. The Pavilion contains public spaces, a reception hall, auditorium, plus 10,000 square feet of flexible space for temporary exhibitions. Shaped like the prow of a ship, with floor-to-ceiling windows looking over Lake Michigan, it incorporates both cutting-edge technology and old-world craftsmanship, a nod to Milwaukee's strong craft tradition. Calatrava said the structure corresponds to the culture of the lake: the sailboats, the weather, the sense of motion and change. In this revised edition, new photographs of the completed building in situ are shown together with new scholarship and conservation efforts of 166 pieces from the museum's permanent collections. ILLUSTRATIONS: 195 colour & 40 b/w illustrations

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