This year, we not only commemorate the 50 years of Frank Lloyd Wright’s death, but also the 50 years of the opening of one of his masterpieces: The Guggenheim Museum.
The museum will celebrate with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. On view from May 15 through August 23, 2009, the 50th anniversary exhibition brings together sixty-four projects by F.L. Wright, including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures. Presented on the spiral ramps of Wright’s museum through a range of mediums — 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 — Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward illuminates Wright’s pioneering concepts of space and reveals the architect’s continuing relevance to contemporary design.
The exhibition takes place between May 15 and August 23, 2009 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
You can also visit an online version of the exhibition.
It is an incredible howdy doo when the digital dragonfly gets people talking and an exhibition on the first architect since Palladio to propose (and build) architecture that allowed for a symbiosis between man and nature gets no attention whatsoever. This is all the proof that I need that people who talk the talk about -sustainbility-green-whatever-hoo-ha do not actually walk the walk, or even think the thought.
Terry Glenn Phipps
You are perfectly right Mr. Phipps :) I love your comment… through a pure speculation I suspect that these posts do not represent views of an average architect, as “real” (as opposed to “virtual”) architects do not have time to waste, unless they are … almost retired… on the other hand, a link to online version of the exhibition does not work and it would be difficult to comment on the exhibition unless you are a New-Yorker… somebody from NY? anybody?
Here’s my two cents. Read it for my semi-long review.
My short review: It’s a decent exhibition, especially because it gathers a lot of unbuilt projects and commissions new models and renderings for the same, as well as models for a few executed buildings. It could have engaged the atrium space better, though given the fact it’s traveling to the Guggenheim Bilbao the vitrines will probably have a harder time competing with Gehry’s spaces. More than anything, it’s a celebration of Wright and not much more. The models make some of his designs as fresh today as 50+ years ago, and that says a lot compared to what’s being produced now…only time will tell how today’s architecture (built and unbuilt) ages.
Quite true indee Terry. I’ve been having my own share of problems because of not believing in this new dogma. A new techical burocratichal review of projects is growing fast, where nothing else matters besides having solar panels, grass rooftops or green walls.It gets to the point where you’re advise not use a material(ex:steel)because of it’s carbon dioxide realeases.
I was just at the exhibit two days ago; magnificent show.
“commemorate the 50 years of Frank Lloyd Wright’s death”
I’m sorry, but I can’t commemorate that…