Guggenheim Museum

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Title

Guggenheim Museum

Agent

Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959)

Location

New York, New York, United States
89th Street and Fifth Avenue
40°46?59?N 73°57?32?W

Date

1942-1959 (creation)
20th century

Style Period

Modernist

Cultural Context

American

Worktype

buildings
exhibition buildings
museums
art museums

Material

concrete
glass

Technique

construction

Subject

Architecture and City Planning

Description

(New addition made in 1992 by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, Architects.) The spiral first appeared in Wright's work as a motor car ramp leading to a mountain-top planetarium overlook (1925
unexecuted) but did not appear again until the first designs for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1943), New York, resulting in the extraordinary (and functionally controversial) upwardly expanding helix of the main gallery (built 1956-1959).

Rights

© Saif Haq
Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.

ID

Haq1142

Source

Saif Haq

Collection

Citation

Wright, Frank Lloyd, Guggenheim Museum, 1942-1959 (creation), New York, New York, United States, TTU Arch Design Images. Image Source: Saif Haq. https://archimage.lib.ttu.edu/items/show/19067.

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