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elements, the design of nature, in creating structures that were quite unique. One of his buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, is one of the most powerful and recognizable
of his designs. As one critic notes, "The Solomon R. Guggenheim, planned by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), broke away from the dicates of the trends of modern architectural movements and
represented the most poetically linked of all his works" (Thais, 2005). The following paper presents a history of the work and then discusses the design of the work itself.
Guggenheim Museum: History Anyone who knows anything about traditional architecture in the time of Wright knows that his work was quite unique. He worked with elements, such as concrete, that
were not commonly used for homes and other buildings aside from large office buildings. He created structures that previously were perhaps believed impossible with support systems that were arched and
otherwise quite different from traditional architecture. In relationship to the Guggenheim Museum the "Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was incorporated in 1937, and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, as it
was then known, was established two years later" (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). The museum was originally set up in an automobile showroom and was founded on radical views in art which
was inspired "by such artists as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Piet Mondrian" (Guggenheim Museum, 2005). As would be expected Guggenheim was an individual who clearly sought out the
unique and perhaps radical in art, and thus wanted a very different structure to house his collection, his museum. As such they naturally turned to Wright. It was in 1943
that Wright was commissioned to come up with a design for this museum (McCarter, 2005). Interestingly enough there were many delays in the construction of this building, a building that
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