GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

View Description

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

This item is restricted to only allow viewing of the metadata.

Description

Rating
Title	GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
View	Vertical view, from the northwest, depicting the full mass of the new addition for art storage
Notes	cultural
Work Type	art museum
Style/Period	Modern Expressionism Modern
Creator Name	Wright, Frank Lloyd
Creator Nationality	American
School of Creator	Prairie School organic architecture
Date.Creator Birth	1867
Date.Creator Death	1959
Contributors to Project	new addition made in 1992 by Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, Architects
Major Design Aspects	spiral form continuous spatial helix forms differentiate functions
Elements & Spatial Types	ramp skylight signature stone sunken garden gate rotunda
Climate Type	cold temperate
Country	United States of America
City	New York
State/Province	NY
Alternate Place Names	New York City, Manhattan
Location.Notes	1095 Fifth Avenue
Architectural Material	concrete, glass
Structural System	poured concrete
Dates	1942-1959
Century	20C
Designation/Awards/Inscriptions	city landmark, tourist site
Photographer	Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Date Photographed	5/31/1990
Subject Information	The Guggenheim Museum is an embodiment of Wright's attempts to render the inherent plasticity of organic forms in architecture. His inverted ziggurat (a stepped or winding pyramidal temple of Babylonian origin) dispensed with the conventional approach to museum design, which led visitors through a series of interconnected rooms and forced them to retrace their steps when exiting. Instead, Wright whisked people to the top of the building via elevator, proceeding downward at a leisurely pace on the gentle slope of a continuous ramp. The galleries were divided like the membranes in citrus fruit, with self-contained yet interdependent sections. The open rotunda afforded viewers the unique possibility of seeing several bays of work on different levels simultaneously. The spiral design recalled a nautilus shell, with continuous spaces flowing freely one into another. Source: Matthew Drutt, www.guggenheim.org/the_building.html / '...[Wright's] great swansong, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York, is a gift of pure architecture„or rather of sculpture. It is a continuous spatial helix, a circular ramp that expands as it coils vertiginously around an unobstructed well of space capped by a flat-ribbed glass dome. A seamless construct, the building evoked for Wright 'the quiet unbroken wAvenue'...' Source: „ Spiro Kostof. A History of Architecture, Settings and Rituals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. p740.
Credit Line	Archivision Inc. (all images copyright Scott Gilchrist / Archivision.com)
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)
Collection information	Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402) 472-1193

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

Description

Tags

Comments