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The Mind Museum is a science museum in Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is located on a 1.2-hectare (3.0-acre) lot in the J. Y. Campos Park in Bonifacio Global City , a business district of the city.
It contains a museum, an archive and a shrine. It was designed by Emil Sodersten and John Crust in a contemporary neoclassical style reminiscent of Lutyens with detailing influenced by Art Deco. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, USA (opened in 1959), by Frank Lloyd Wright is an important architectural landmark and icon of the ...
Designed by National Artist for Architecture Leandro Locsin, its design was based and expanded upon the unconstructed Philippine-American Friendship Center. The Tanghalan is a primary example of the architect's signature style known as the floating volume, a trait which can be seen in structures indigenous to the Philippines such as the nipa hut.
The building which houses the museum was constructed in 1931. It was designed in Neoclassical style, which was the prevalent architectural style in the Philippines during the American Colonial Period. It was among the first buildings constructed for the UP System, and was specifically built to become the University Infirmary until 1947.
Julian Francis Abele (April 30, 1881 – April 23, 1950) was a prominent black American architect, and chief designer in the offices of Horace Trumbauer.He contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings, including the Widener Memorial Library at Harvard University (1912–15), Philadelphia's Central Library (1917–27), [3] and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1914–28). [4]
With painstaking precision, Lihan, an artist based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., makes architectural reliefs of cities, famous landmarks and private homes by cutting, folding and carving heavy-duty ...
Wolf Prix' father was an architect; [6] Wolf looked over his father's shoulder in the office. He went to the museum with him and asked: “Why don’t we finish the Tower of Babel?” [7] [8] The visit of the priory La Tourette (designed by Le Corbusier), located near Lyon, France, was his inspiration to study architecture.
The Embassy of the Free Mind is a museum, library and platform for free thinking [further explanation needed] inspired by the philosophy of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica collection. [2] The museum focuses on the European culture of free thinking [ further explanation needed ] of the past 2,000 years with Hermetic wisdom as the source ...