Frank Lloyd Wright Series

I am now done the Frank Lloyd Wright Series. 

Here are the five buildings I posted on:

1. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

2. The Emil Bach House

3. The Imperial Hotel

4. The Johnson Wax Headquarters

5. Beth Sholom Congregation

I hope it was enjoyable.

To close it out, I will include some facts about Frank Lloyd Wright.

He was married to three different wives at different times during his life.

He first designed in America, than eloped to Europe, then later moved back to America.

He has designed many different kinds of structures totaling 415.

Some of the types are (some are plural, some singular):

1. Houses

2. Apartment buildings

3. Hotels

4. Research Headquarters

5. Synagogues

5. Churches

6. Service stations

7. Cemetery buildings

8. Windmills

9. Pavilions

10. Yacht clubs

11. Fountains

12. Museums

13. Office buildings

14. Banks

15. Factories

16. Libraries

17. Chapels

18. Country Clubs

19. Bookstores

20. Inns

21. Playhouses

22. Gardens

23. Bridges

24. Studios

25. Shops

26. Car dealerships

27.  Golf clubhouses

28. Convention centers

29. Boathouses

30. Spires

Recent posts

Some of my major recent posts are:

• Burj Al Arab
• Architecture books I own
• #1 in the Frank L.Wright series: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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Scroll down to see the post I did on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum!

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The exterior of the museum

This is the interior

The gigantic skylight.

(I think this picture is in black and white)

This museum was built in 1959, being finished after Wright died.

This museum was Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work.

It was made as one of two new museums built to display the art collection of 

Solomon R. Guggenheim. It displays an assortment of random artist's work. 

The main building materials are concrete and glass.

The style is Modern Movement.

The main part of the building is spiral. It may look like four different levels, but it is one big ramp that ascends gently. Some people criticize the idea of displaying art on a spiral because it distorts the view as apposed to horizontally. The is also a bank of elevators on one side of the spiral. The roof of the spiral is a large glass skylight divided into sections. That, and a ring of lights light the atrium. There are multiple lights illuminating the pictures. 

The overall roundness of the building stands out with all the square skyscrapers and buildings in Manhattan, making this building well known. When Wright built it he said: 

"That it would make the Metropolitan Museum of Art look like a Protestant barn."

I am going to be doing a series of posts on buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright.

 I hope you enjoy them.