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Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY
Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building.
Photo Robert E. Mates © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Crowds lined up at the opening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, October 21, 1959
The exhibition takes its title from Frank Lloyd Wright’s musings on the importance of interior space in shaping and informing a structure’s exterior.
“The building is no longer a block of building material dealt with, artistically, from the outside, the room within is the great fact about building - the room to be expressed in the exterior as space enclosed.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Few designs in Wright’s oeuvre so well illustrate the concept of designing “from within outward” as the Guggenheim Museum, in which the interior form gives shape to the exterior shell of the building.
Photo © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Exterior view
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, 1943 - 59
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York 1943 - 59
Ink and pencil on tracing paper
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
“The Reception”
Graphite pencil and colored pencil on paper
The anniversary exhibition brings together 64 projects designed by one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures.
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Cloverleaf Quadruple Housing (project)
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1942
Colored pencil and ink on paper
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Gordon Strong Automobile
Objective and Planetarium (project)
Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland, 1924 - 25
Colored pencil on tracing paper
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Steel Cathedral, New York, 1926 (project)
Graphite pencil and colored pencil on paper
Presented on the spiral ramps of Wright’s museum through a range of media, including more than 200 original Frank Lloyd Wright drawings, many of which are on view to the public for the first time, as well as newly commissioned models and digital animations the exhibition illuminates Wright’s pioneering concepts of space and reveals the architect’s continuing relevance to contemporary design.
Photo David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Model of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, 1943-59
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Photo David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Model, by Situ Studio, Huntington Hartford Play Resort
Los Angeles, 1947 (unbuilt)
Photo David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Installation view
During his 72-year career, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), who died just six months before the opening of the Guggenheim, worked independently from any single style and developed a new sense of architecture in which form and function are inseparable. Known for his inventiveness and the diversity of his work, Wright is celebrated for the awe-inspiring beauty and tranquility of his designs.
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Taliesin West
Scottsdale, Arizona, 1937 - 59
View from prow to drafting studio and original dining room
Photo David Heald © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Taliesin III
Spring Green, Wisconsin, 1925 - 59
View of the Hill Tower
His innovative designs complement the surrounding environment of the site and intensify the physical, emotional, and social experience of flowing, continuous space within them. In his earliest designs, such as the Larkin Company Administration Building and Unity Temple, Wright carefully deconstructs the box-like environment of his European contemporaries by opening up corners and using walls merely as screens to enclose tranquil interior spaces.
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Larkin Company Administration Building
Buffalo, New York, 1902 - 06 (demolished)
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Larkin Company Administration Building
Buffalo, New York, 1902 - 06 (demolished)
Interior court view, Print
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Unity Temple
Oak Park, Illinois, 1905 - 08
Ink and watercolor on art paper
Whether creating a private home, workplace, religious edifice, or cultural attraction, Wright sought to unite people, buildings, and nature in physical and spiritual harmony. To realize such a union in material form, Wright created environments of simplicity and repose through carefully composed plans and elevations based on consistent, geometric grammars.
Photo: Ezra Stoller © Esto
Marin County Civic Center
San Rafael, California, 1957 - 62
Main entrance of administration building
Photo © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Imperial Hotel, Scheme #2
Tokyo, 1913 - 22 (demolished)
View of the promenade
“Rather than a retrospective, this exhibition focuses on the diversity of Wright’s vision and the ways he sought to realize it, conveying fresh perspectives on how the buildings themselves celebrate that vision through spaces that enrich our lives with their transformational power.”
Phil Allsopp, President and CEO
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Photo William Short © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Frank Lloyd Wright during construction of the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ca. 1959
The exhibition is on view through August 23, 2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward is accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue published by Skira/Rizzoli
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May 25, 2009