Spain - Table of Contents....................Architecture Around the World
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain
(bill BAH oh)
Official
Guggenheim Museum Web
site
| Architect: | Frank
Gehry |
| Built: | 1993-1997 |
| Style: |
Neo-Expressionist |
| See also: |
| "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 |
