• critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 26 x 26 cm.
  • 89 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0892071257

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, David Heald, William H. Short, Lee B. Ewing

description

Critical text by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, with photographs by David Heald, William H. Short, Lee B. Ewing. "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is among the most famous buildings in the world, and widely acknowledged as the crowning achievement of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's late career. The spectacular regular grid of New York City's streets, is emblematic of Wright's unique vision of an organic architecture. This book celebrates the Guggenheim from its inception to the present. In a highly informative essay, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Vice President and Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, traces an odyssey that began in 1943 with a letter imploring Wright to build a 'temple of spirit' for a small museum of non-objective paintings. The project endured delays and upsets for sixteen years before construction was completed in 1959, only months after Wright's death. After a major restoration and expansion project, completed in 1992, the architect's original vision has now truly been fulfilled. This beautiful volume also includes fascinating photographs taken during the museum's construction, a portfolio of photograph's interpreting Wright's structure as a work of art, and images of exhibition installations within the newly restored building." -- from interior flap. Printed in color and black-and-white.

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