Wright’s Final Masterpiece

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“The need for a permanent building to house Guggenheim’s art collection became evident in the early 1940s, and in 1943 renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright gained the commission to design a museum in New York City. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened on October 21, 1959.”

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Dear George,
Your subcontractor for Gunite is or undoubtally [sic] should be bound to give you a job where no form-marks are visible to such an extent that they show through the finished coating when applied.
I am sure your good conscience and pride in your work would tolerate nothing so derogatory to the work as a whole consequently to your future reputation as a builder – not to mention mine as an architect.
Therefore will you kindly go over the outer walls and properly prepare them for coating wherever this has not been done.
In Gunite work done for me in the past this has been insisted upon and no less should be done here.
I will go over the work with you and point out the defects if necessary.
But this should not be necessary as I believe your good conscience should take care of your own interest and that would be my own interest as well.
I will be in town next Monday to go over the building with you.
Sincerely,
Frank Lloyd Wright

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Countryside, The Future –
Organized in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, director of AMO, the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, this exhibition contests the assumption that everincreasing urbanization is inevitable and explores radical changes in the rural, remote, and wild territories collectively identified here as “countryside,” or the 98% of the Earth’s surface not occupied by cities. Two walls of the introductory gallery feature Koolhaas’s essay, “?,” a text made exclusively of questions. Numbering almost 1,000 in total, these inquiries testify to the scale of genuine curiosity that drives this research project.
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“Frank Lloyd Wright’s initials can be found on the exterior of the museum, like a signature on a work of art.”

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