What’s a Guggenheim? Symposium
January 30, 2015 |
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation continually re-invents the contemporary museum experience through their commitment to architecture. Architectural masterpieces such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim New York and Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao not only speculate on new ways of organizing art and space, but they create alternative worlds. At the close of the era of mega-projects and the globalization of the art world, the question is: what’s next? After foiled attempts to build in Vilnius in 2008 (with architect Zaha Hadid), and then in Helsinki in 2012, the Guggenheim Foundation has once again set out to build. The socio-political climate has changed since Bilbao, and architecture, too, seems to be at a crossroads. What will this new attempt do for art? What new worlds will it construct? How will architects respond differently in this century than in the last? Will a contemporary sense of austerity and local culture transform the architectural icon? This SCI-Arc hosted symposium will engage some of these questions through discussing competition proposals submitted by SCI-Arc directors and faculty.
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Website:
www.sciarc.edu |
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Location Information |
Southern California Institute of Architecture |
960 E. 3rd Street Los Angeles, CA |
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