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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum seen from Fifth Avenue

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Description: The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconoclastic Masterpiece
Following a complicated confrontation between Frank Lloyd Wright, his consultants, and the Board of Standards and Appeals, the City of New York granted a construction permit for the new museum in March 1956, four years after the trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation had approved the plans. The project violated several regulations in the construction code of the time, and in all...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-6
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00265.001

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