Last Chance: Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
15th May - 23rd August '09
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street)
In celebration of the golden anniversary of the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents, Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward.
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, the exhibition features sixty-four projects designed by the influential architect, including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures.
During his seventy-two-year career, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) worked independently from any single style and developed a new sense of architecture in which form and function were inseparable. The exhibition highlights this element of his work while illuminating Wright’s pioneering concepts of space, revealing the architect’s continuing relevance to contemporary design.
Gordon Strong Automobile Objective and Planetarium (unbuilt) by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1924 – ©2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954-59 – ©2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
