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The Man Who Built The Stieren

Jean-Paul Viguier, architect for the Jane & Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, returns for a special collaboration between the museum and UTSA’s College of Architecture.

Viguier’s talk marks the fifth anniversary of the opening of the Stieren Center.

The Paris-based architect is known for a number of acclaimed large scale projects in his country and abroad: the Parc André Citroën, the largest Park in Paris since the Second Empire; two towers in La Defense, Paris; the archeological museum at the Pond du Gard, Nimes; and the new Museum of Natural History, Toulouse.

In June 2008 the newly opened modernist glass pavilion nearly doubled the size of the McNay Art Museum.  The $33.1 million Jane & Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions is set amid 23 acres of gardens.

The Stieren Center is Viguier’s first museum project in the United States. It is also the first museum expansion in the U.S designed by a French architect.

This lecture was recorded by Paul Waryas 

Built by artist and educator Marion Koogler McNay in the 1920s, the Spanish Colonial Revival residence opened as Texas's first museum of modern art in 1954. Today more than 100,000 visitors a year enjoy works by modern masters including Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, & Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In June 2008, the museum opened the 45,000-square-foot Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions designed by internationally renowned French architect Jean-Paul Viguier. Nearly doubling the McNay's exhibition space, the Stieren Center includes three separate outdoor sculpture galleries.