Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Preferred Title:
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Alternate Title:
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Guggenheim Museum
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Image View:
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View of the ramp that leads to the auditorium below ground level
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Creator:
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Frank Lloyd Wright (American architect, 1867-1959)
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Location:
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site: New York, New York, United States
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Location Note:
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89th Street and Fifth Avenue
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Date:
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1942-1959 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Modernist, Modern
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Work Type 1:
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art museum
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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concrete; glass
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; Art museums; garden: sunken garden
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Description:
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[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: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Base Collection
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Identifier:
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1A1-WFL-GM-D3
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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