The Guggenheim Museum & its Giorgio Armani Exhibition In November of 1999, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York announced that it would devote an exhibition to honor the works of the celebrated Italian designer Giorgio Armani. However, during the announcement of the exhibition, the museum did not mention that it was simultaneously entering into a three-year agreement in which Armani pledged a donation of $15 million to Guggenheim. When The New York Times unveiled Armani's gift, the museum
Study: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave., New York Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright Design Begins: 1943 Construction Begins: 1956 Completed/Opened: October 21st, 1959 Extension Added: 1992 Exterior Renovation: 2005-2008 Function: Art Gallery (for non-objective art) How and Why the Work was Made Solomon R. Guggenheim wanted a place where he could display his works of art, particularly his collection of non-objective paintings. Through his various assistants and aids, Mr. Guggenheim decided
Comparison of Two Museums The Frick Collection and The Guggenheim Museum are both museums on 5th Avenue in New York’s Upper East Side neighborhood, and they are both named for famous American tycoons from the early 20thcentury. But their similarities pretty much end there. The Frick Collection is the former residence of steel baron Henry Clay Frick who spent forty years assembling a large collection of artwork for his personal enjoyment. The Guggenheim Museum, on the other hand, was always intended as
home to number of architectural classics. Two of these masterpieces of architecture are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Both continue the metaphor of New York being a world within a world and possess the latent fusion of form and function, one dependent on the other. The Metropolitan Museum is the epitome of neo-Classical style while the Guggenheim is a modernist powerhouse. Each museum serves
The Life of Frank Lloyd Wright Before Frank Lloyd Wright was born his mother knew he was going to be a world renowned architect. In his nursery, she hung prints of well known cathedrals of Europe on the walls. Frank Lloyd Wright was born on June 8 ,1869. He was always very close to his mother, and when his father left Frank went off to work to help his mother raise the other children. Frank’s father also had a large impact on his son’s life. Able to play a dozen instruments, he taught Frank
equals. In the end, however, Gehry’s goal of designing buildings where art and architecture were of the same importance would eventually become a self-contradictory objective. This can best be seen in the design of Gehry’s most renowned work, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. By attempting to combine the most interesting aspects of art and architecture into one massive building, Gehry created a structure so revolutionary that it, like himself, would forever be known not
An artist’s limitations are his best friends. In Mill Run, Pennsylvania sits Falling Water, one of the most famous residential houses ever constructed (figure 5). The American Institute of Architecture named Falling Water one of the most significant building in the last 125 years. The reason behind its unique name was because it was built on top of a waterfall. When Frank Lloyd Wright designed Falling Water he was sixty-nine years old, unemployed, and people considered his career to be over. Countless
being very oval in shape and funny looking. They are made of caster or metal and his sculptures are always doing some activity or motion. His beautiful artworks are now displayed in many institutions around the country being Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art. Otterness has even been named the ‘best public art’ sculpture for his works. He gained this reputation through making numerous public sculptures of human beings or animal figures
Prairie architecture was known for its revolutionary approach to the building of modern homes. Wright built about 50 prairie houses in ten years. Two of his major works that stand out is the Guggenheim Museum located in New York and the Marin County government Centre located near San Francisco. The Guggenheim Museum is a form of abstract art which has no separate floor levels but uses a spiral ramp. This was his ideal of continuous space and most significant building. His principles
"Utopia: n .an impractical idealistic scheme for social and political reform" - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition For over twenty years the Iraqi-born, English educated architect Zaha Hadid has symbolized the vanguard of contemporary architecture. She has pushed back the boundaries of built form to forge a highly individualist architectonic language that is at once thrillingly dynamic and intensely thoughtful, and as a result now has an enormous following