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In 2006 the Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced its gift of a new cultural center in Athens to house both Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera House within a forty-acre landscaped public park. Two years later, with designers and engineers in place and the project underway, the Greek economy collapsed.

In Chaos and Culture, Victoria Newhouse weaves a fascinating narrative of how a philanthropist and an extraordinary design team became convinced that architecture could serve as a beacon of hope amid Greece's economic crisis and political upheaval. With meticulous methodology of primary research, interviews with designers, and historic context, Newhouse describes the decade-long process leading to the creation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), an $800 million dollar project that became the symbol of recovery and survival.

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) cannot but assume unusual cultural significance, standing as it does on a hill in view of the Parthenon (to the north) and Faliro Bay (to the south). Newhouse further situates the project within the modern history of Athens, beginning with Greece's independence in 1832, and reaches back much earlier to describe two-thousand-year old cemeteries unearthed on the site. Aerial views by the photographer Iwan Baan are among the 200 photographs and drawings documenting the process and context of the SNFCC.

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This latest volume from Newhouse (Site and Sound), founder of the Architectural History Foundation, covers the construction of one of the world's largest cultural centers, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, in Athens, Greece, named after the man who donated the building back to his country of origin after brief success with a candy store in Buffalo, NY. Facing the harbor yet looking toward the city's ancient Acropolis two miles away, the complex encompasses the Greek National Library and National Opera, among other cultural facilities, including numerous gardens and canals above and within a 40-acre concrete roof. This immense construction project lasted ten years (2006-16) while Greece fought through the chaos of economic survival and seven presidents. The father and founder of the architectural firm chosen for this assignment, Renzo Piano, has emerged over the past 50 years as the Leonardo da Vinci of modern architecture, focused on its tectonic materiality in glass, steel, and concrete. VERDICT For libraries serving communities seeking information about or building cultural centers.-Peter S. Kaufman, Boston -Architectural Ctr., MA © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Victoria Newhouse is an architectural historian and the author of Towards a New Museum , Art and the Power of Placement, and Site and Sound: The Architecture and Acoustics of New Opera Houses and Concert Halls . She lectures frequently on museums, and her articles on the subject have appeared in the New York Times , Architectural Record , Architectural Digest , and ArtNews. Newhouse also founded and directed the Architectural History Foundation, a nonprofit publisher of scholarly books.