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26/7/2012

A Long-Awaited Tribute

Guggenheim Museum, New York

On October 22, 1953, Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright opened in New York on the site where the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum would eventually be built. Two Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings were constructed specifically to house the exhibition: a temporary pavilion made of glass, fiberboard, and pipe columns; and a 1,700-square-foot, fully furnished, two-bedroom, model Usonian house representing Wright’s organic solution for modest, middle-class dwellings.

This presentation, comprised of selected materials from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives, pays homage to these two structures. Aware of his lack of architectural recognition in New York City prior to the 1953 exhibition, Wright declared: “this house and the pavilion alongside it . . . represent a long-awaited tribute: the first Wright building[s] erected in New York City.”¹

1. Frank Lloyd Wright, The Usonian House: Souvenir of the Exhibition, 60 Years of Living Architecture, the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1953), p. 4.

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Lauren Van Natten, Associate Director, Media and Public Relations
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
212 423 3840
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, New York
Museum Hours: Sun–Wed, 10 am–5:45 pm; Fri, 10 am–5:45 pm; Sat, 10 am–7:45 pm; closed Thurs. On Saturdays, beginning at 5:45 pm, the museum hosts Pay What You Wish.
Admission: Admission: Beginning June 8, adults $22, students/seniors (65+) $18, members and children under 12 free. Admission includes an audio tour of Art of Another Kind and an audio tour with highlights of the Guggenheim's permanent collection and building available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish

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