Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum

by Witold Rybczynski

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Witold Rybczynski, one of the most fluent and avidly followed writers on architecture is the perfect guide to the remarkable inside story of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, created for Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury's private collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture.

Biography of a Building gives an absorbing account, drawing in all the threads of the buildings history starting with the genesis of the Sainsbury's world-class art collection. The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts was Norman Fosters first public commission and opened to the public in April 1978.
  • ISBN10 0500342768
  • ISBN13 9780500342763
  • Publish Date 30 June 2011
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 240
  • Language English