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The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright´s Iconoclastic Masterpiece
Francesco Dal Co
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Hardback. The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Series: Great Architects/Great Buildings. Num Pages: 184 pages, 63 color +104 b/w illus. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AMB; AMG; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 178. .
The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic. But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the museum's founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the project. Over the next 17 ... Read more
The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan is often called iconic. But it is in fact iconoclastic, standing in stark contrast to the surrounding metropolis and setting a new standard for the postwar art museum. Commissioned to design the building in 1943 by the museum's founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the project. Over the next 17 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Great Architects/Great Buildings
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300226058
SKU
V9780300226058
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About Francesco Dal Co
Francesco Dal Co is professor of history of architecture at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura Venezia (IUAV) and director of the architecture magazine Casabella. His many publications include Modern Architecture (with Manfredo Tafuri) and Centre Pompidou: Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument (Yale).
Reviews for The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright´s Iconoclastic Masterpiece
[Dal Co] sets out again to trace the circumstances that enabled the realization of a building so resistant to the orthodoxy hardening around it. Drawing from correspondence, theoretical discussions, technical analyses, and substantial previous scholarship, he illustrates the charged climate surrounding the genesis of the Guggenheim, condensing decades into a narrative of overlapping events to arrive at new interpretations of ... Read more