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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