Walking in Oak Park, a small town in Illinois. A visit organized by curious friends who shared their curiosity towards an architect and his style. Ending up discovering that this gentleman's masterpiece is a building that I keep crossing by every week in New York.
Yes, we are talking about Frank Lincoln Wright and the Guggenheim Museum.
Back home...time to learn more about it and share with all of you. Enjoy below information and don't forget, Oak Park is only 25 minutes from Chicago's Airport, no excuses to miss it!
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".[1] Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.
Yes, we are talking about Frank Lincoln Wright and the Guggenheim Museum.
Back home...time to learn more about it and share with all of you. Enjoy below information and don't forget, Oak Park is only 25 minutes from Chicago's Airport, no excuses to miss it!
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by his design for Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".[1] Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.
His work includes original and innovative examples of many different
building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers,
hotels, and museums. Wright also designed many of the interior elements
of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass.
Wright authored 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer
in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often
made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio. Already well known during his lifetime, Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time."
One of his late masterpiece, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, occupied Wright for 16 years (1943–1959)[49] and is probably his most recognized masterpiece. The building rises as a warm beige spiral from its site on Fifth Avenue; its interior is similar to the inside of a seashell.
Its unique central geometry was meant to allow visitors to easily
experience Guggenheim's collection of nonobjective geometric paintings
by taking an elevator
to the top level and then viewing artworks by walking down the slowly
descending, central spiral ramp, which features a floor embedded with
circular shapes and triangular light fixtures to complement the
geometric nature of the structure.
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