Josef Kleihues

…the late 1990s by architect Josef Paul Kleihues to replace the pavilions that were destroyed during World War II. The gate is decorated with reliefs and sculptures designed by Gottfried Schadow, the majority of them based on the exploits of Heracles. In 1793 a quadriga (chariot drawn by four horses…

…found in vestigial form in Josef Paul Kleihues’s design (1996) for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The concept of the museum as a cathedral, seen among some 19th-century museums and typified in London’s Natural History Museum, also lingers: the massive cylindrical light at the San Francisco Museum of…

In May 1991 German architect Josef Paul Kleihues was chosen to design the museum’s new building. His design was shaped by the building’s function and its unique placement in a park corridor between Michigan Avenue and Lake Michigan. Both the materials used in the construction of the new MCA and…