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With the 2006 opening of its expansion designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, The Morgan Library and Museum in New York began a new chapter in its history.This is an illustrated chronicle of the one-hundred-year transformation of a rarefied private library into an acclaimed public museum. The contributors assess Pierpont Morgan's vision for his personal library, provide historical context for its public evolution and examine the process of the expansion; and in an interview, Piano discusses his role.

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[A] powerful pick, packed with color photos throughout.

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* PAUL S. BYARD, the head of the Historic Preservation programme at Columbia University, is a past president of the Architectural League of New York and the author of The Architecture of Additions (ISBN 978 0 393 73176 7). CYNTHIA DAVIDSON edits ANY magazine, is the director of Anyone Corporation and is on the editorial board of the MIT Press Writing Architecture series. CHARLES E. PIERCE JR is the director of The Morgan Library and Museum. BRIAN REGAN, deputy director of The Morgan Library and Museum, was co-ordinator of the renovation and expansion project.

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