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Between icon and institution: the vacillating significance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum
How might the perceived significance of an architectural work change across time, and what are the parameters within which such a changed perception is manifested? These are questions that this paper attempts to answer through a study of writings on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. The writings discussed range from those published in the mid-1940s, when Wright’s early schemes were first seen in journals, to the more recent criticism of the restoration and addition by Gwathmey Seigel Architects. The varying significance accorded to the Guggenheim Museum as well as the underlying regularities guiding the variations are discussed. A dichotomy is identified in writings on the Guggenheim Museum between the building comprehended as an architectural icon and as one understood as serving the institutional needs of an art museum. It is suggested that this dichotomy, formed despite (and sometimes abetted by) the attempts of historians and critics to offer reasoned understandings of the building, was eventually resolved through the absorption of the iconic value of Wright’s building into the institutional programme of the museum.
Between icon and institution: the vacillating significance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum
How might the perceived significance of an architectural work change across time, and what are the parameters within which such a changed perception is manifested? These are questions that this paper attempts to answer through a study of writings on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. The writings discussed range from those published in the mid-1940s, when Wright’s early schemes were first seen in journals, to the more recent criticism of the restoration and addition by Gwathmey Seigel Architects. The varying significance accorded to the Guggenheim Museum as well as the underlying regularities guiding the variations are discussed. A dichotomy is identified in writings on the Guggenheim Museum between the building comprehended as an architectural icon and as one understood as serving the institutional needs of an art museum. It is suggested that this dichotomy, formed despite (and sometimes abetted by) the attempts of historians and critics to offer reasoned understandings of the building, was eventually resolved through the absorption of the iconic value of Wright’s building into the institutional programme of the museum.
Between icon and institution: the vacillating significance of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum
Chanchani, Samiran (author)
The Journal of Architecture ; 5 ; 159-188
2000-01-01
30 pages
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