Milwaukee Art Museum
- Architects
- Eero Saarinen Santiago Calatrava
- Year
- 1882
- City
- Milwaukee, WI
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The Milwaukee Art Museum traces its roots to 1882 and is known today for the addition designed by Santiago Calatrava, following earlier work by Eero Saarinen, on the city's lakefront. Built in a high-tech architectural idiom, it has become Milwaukee's signature landmark, its moving-wing massing giving the museum a highly visible presence on the lake.
the building
Calatrava's moving wing. The addition attributed to Calatrava is known for a landmark structural and typological innovation: a wing-like element that moves, a feature widely retold as the story of the museum and central to its high-tech architectural character.
the style
The museum is built in a high-tech architectural style, expressed most visibly in the moving-wing structure of the Calatrava addition, which gives the lakefront facade its distinctive, widely recognized massing.
More on Structuralism / High-Techthe architect
The museum bears the work of two architects of international standing: Eero Saarinen, who worked on the building, and Santiago Calatrava, whose addition is known for its structurally innovative moving wing.
significance
The Milwaukee Art Museum is retold widely as the city's defining landmark, its lakefront facade and moving-wing massing giving it outsized visibility and recognition.
nearby
- Milwaukee County War Memorial
- Quadracci Pavilion
- Cudahy Tower
- University Club Tower
- Northwestern Mutual Tower and Commons
- Dubbel Dutch