The 58-Year Evolution of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum
This article originally appeared on guggenheim.org/blogs under the title "Wright?s Living Organism: The Evolution of the Guggenheim Museum," and is used with permission.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1959, with the original yellow-brown painted facade. Image © Robert E. Mates
This article originally appeared on guggenheim.org/blogs under the title "Wright?s Living Organism: The Evolution of the Guggenheim Museum," and is used with permission.Standing on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum construction site in 1957, architect Frank Lloyd Wright proclaimed, ?It is all one thing, all an integral, not part upon part. This is the principle I?ve always worked toward.? The ?principle? that Wright referred to is the design ideology that he developed over the course of his seventy-year career: organic architecture. At its core, that principle was an aspiration for spatial continuity, in which every element of a building would be conceived not as a discretely designed module, but as a constituent of the whole.Although not Wright?s intention per se, it is fitting that the building he conceived of as a living organism has evolved over time. The overall integrity and character-defining spiral form have remained unchanged, but there have been a series of additions and renovations necessitated by the growth and modernization of the institution.
View from Fifth Avenue of the original driveway and entrance to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Mus...
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1959, with the original yellow-brown painted facade. Image © Robert E. Mates
This article originally appeared on guggenheim.org/blogs under the title "Wright?s Living Organism: The Evolution of the Guggenheim Museum," and is used with permission.Standing on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum construction site in 1957, architect Frank Lloyd Wright proclaimed, ?It is all one thing, all an integral, not part upon part. This is the principle I?ve always worked toward.? The ?principle? that Wright referred to is the design ideology that he developed over the course of his seventy-year career: organic architecture. At its core, that principle was an aspiration for spatial continuity, in which every element of a building would be conceived not as a discretely designed module, but as a constituent of the whole.Although not Wright?s intention per se, it is fitting that the building he conceived of as a living organism has evolved over time. The overall integrity and character-defining spiral form have remained unchanged, but there have been a series of additions and renovations necessitated by the growth and modernization of the institution.
View from Fifth Avenue of the original driveway and entrance to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Mus...
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