Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Item
- Title
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Creator
- Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959)
- City
- New York, New York, United States
- Country
- United States
- Date Created
- 1942-1959 (creation)
- Century
- 20th century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- Modernist
- Cultural Context
- American
- Materials
- Precast concrete blocks
- steel
- glass
- Subject
- architectural exteriors
- architectural interiors
- Art museums
- Description
- General view from the northwest, at East Dr., adjacent to Central Park, [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
- Javier Gomez
- Photographer
- Javier Gomez
- Rights Holder
- © Javier Gomez
- Texas Tech University Libraries
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959), “Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed June 22, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/37326