Thursday, March 21, 2013

Guggenheim Museum in New York by Frank Lloyd Wright

1. His inverted ziggurat (a stepped or winding pyramidal temple of Babylonian origin) dispensed with the conventional approach to museum design, which led visitors through a series of interconnected rooms and forced them to retrace their steps when exiting. Instead, Wright whisked people to the top of the building via elevator, and led them downward at a leisurely pace on the gentle slope of a continuous ramp. The galleries were divided like the membranes in citrus fruit, with self-contained yet interdependent sections.

2. This spiral serves not only for design purposes but also as a natural guide for visitors. It is one of the few museums I can honestly say that I have never been lost in. The design allows the viewer to easily interact with the work, without having to think where to walk or ask themselves, “Have I been in this room already?”

copyright: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/about/frank-lloyd-wright-building and http://theeyethatwrites.blogspot.com/2012/03/normal_26.html


Because of this I just realized the cool part of being an architect. :))
You hold the power of what the building would look like. You can create not just mere quadrilateral type, but even complex labyrinth or maze-like --anything within your vast imagination. As long as you have the will to COMPUTE and apply the laws of Physics, Calculus, etc etc, you can come up with something like Wright's Guggenheim Museum; or Frank Gehry's or Calatrava and -put other cool architects and their styles here-

I hope one day I would be able to create something like this. ..or weirder :))