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Opus Ziggurat
United States
RE-DRAW: Guggenheim Competition
2020
Digital Drawing
The following is a whimsical account that describes the origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City as a symphonic masterwork that resulted from a secret love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright (the building’s noted architect) and Peggy Guggenheim (socialite and heiress to the Guggenheim family fortune).
Title:
Location:
Program:
Date:
Medium:
Opus Ziggurat
United States
RE-DRAW: Guggenheim Competition
2020
Digital Drawing
The following is a whimsical account that describes the origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City as a symphonic masterwork that resulted from a secret love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright (the building’s noted architect) and Peggy Guggenheim (socialite and heiress to the Guggenheim family fortune).
His signature porkpie hat and her Safilo sunglasses inspired a flurry of architectural ideas that were too subtle and fleeting even for them to recognize their significance. The composition of curves that crescendo into a whirling atrium, the choice to finish the floors in elegant Italian terrazzo, and the audacity of pink stucco on the exterior were signs of a creative mind caught in a romantic reverie.
