Guggenheim Museum

Item

Title
Guggenheim Museum
Creator
Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959)
City
New York, New York, United States
Address
89th Street and Fifth Avenue
Country
United States
Date Created
1942-1959 (creation)
Century
20th century
Classification
Architecture and City Planning
Building Type
art museums
museums
exhibition buildings
Style/Period
Modernist
Cultural Context
American
Materials
concrete
glass
Techniques
construction
Description
addition detail
(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).
Source
Saif Haq
Photographer
Saif Haq
Rights Holder
© Saif Haq
Access Rights
Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
Item sets
All Faculty Collections
Saif Haq Collection
Media
https://www.myweb.ttu.edu/saschuma/ttu_haq_001141.jpg

Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959), “Guggenheim Museum”, Arch Design Images, accessed November 15, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/archlib/item/16286