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Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain
(bill BAH oh)
Official Guggenheim Museum Web site
| Architect: | Frank Gehry See also: Fondation Louis Vuitton |
| Built: | 1993-1997 |
| Style: |
Neo-Expressionist |
| See also: | Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris |
| "Great architects are often
blamed for the sins of their imitators, and at the end of the twentieth
centyury it was Frank Gehry's turn. The great ballyhoo that surrounded his Guggenheim Museum Bilbao spurred an outbreak of dreadful imitations. Yet Gehry's improvisational Neo-Expressionism could not be mimicked with as much facility as Mies van der Rohe's Minimalism or Venturi and Scott Brown's Pop Mannerism." - Martin Filler, "Makers of Modern Architecture: From Frank lloyd Wright to Frank Gehry, " 2007, p. 184 |
