The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright's Iconoclastic Masterpiece

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By Francesco Dal Co Considered the crowning achievement of Frank Lloyd Wright (18671959), 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 museums founding curator, Baroness Hilla von Rebay, Wright established residence in the Plaza Hotel in order to oversee the project. Over the next 17 years…