Acknowledgments

Dal Co, Francesco

I don't have an account

Create an account to save content, highlights, and notes to your personal bookshelf.

If you do not have access to the eBook content on the A&AePortal via an institutional subscription, you can purchase an individual subscription from your account. Learn more about subscriptions.

Purchase a subscription

Save Cite Share

Free

Acknowledgments

Francesco Dal Co

The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconoclastic Masterpiece

~While preparing this book I discussed with a few friends as I was writing; the most patient ones read my first, handwritten manuscript; each of these friends, but Nicholas Adams and Tomaso Trombetti especially, with the book before them, will be able to judge the debts I have amassed. I owe a particular debt to Katherine Boller, her colleagues at Yale...

Author

Francesco Dal Co

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21467

Acknowledgments

While preparing this book I discussed with a few friends as I was writing; the most patient ones read my first, handwritten manuscript; each of these friends, but Nicholas Adams and Tomaso Trombetti especially, with the book before them, will be able to judge the debts I have amassed. I owe a particular debt to Katherine Boller, her colleagues at Yale University Press, and Sarah Melker, who patiently translated my words.

I first visited the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1971. From that moment the Guggenheim became a destination I cannot turn down each time I find myself in New York. I decided, however, to write this book after having traveled to New York with Bastiana, and returned there with her when well over thirty years had passed since that first visit. For this reason, too, but not only, I dedicate this book to her.

Venezia, October 2016

Previous chapter Next chapter

Book details

BOOKThe Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconoclastic Masterpiece

Francesco Dal Co

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00265

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21454

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 years, Wright continuously clashed with his clients over the cost and the design, a conflict that extended to the city of New York and its cultural establishment.

Against all odds, Wright held fast to his radical design concept of an inverted ziggurat and spiraling ramp, built with a continuous beam—a shape recalling the form of an hourglass. Construction was only completed in 1959, six months after Wright’s death. The building’s initial critical response ultimately gave way to near-universal admiration, as it came to be seen as an architectural masterpiece. This essential text, offering a behind-the-scenes story of the Guggenheim along with a careful reading of its architecture, is illustrated with more than 150 images, including plans, drawings, and rare photographs of the building under construction.

*This eBook is available exclusively on the A&AePortal.*

Author

Francesco Dal Co

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date July 2017 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300226058

EISBN 9780300264234

Illustrations 160

Print Status in print

Publisher (in print)

WorldCat

Google Books

Base text size -

Chapter images ()