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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, Basque Provinces, Spain)en_US
dc.coverage.temporal1997 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorGehry, Frank Owenen_US
dc.date1997en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-20T20:11:30Z
dc.date.available2012-12-20T20:11:30Z
dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.identifier179142en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2144en_US
dc.descriptionView along the north flank looking west; Since the late 1980s Gehry has experiemented with the sensuous possibilities of metallic surfaces. The deconstructed masses of Gehry's designs are best expressed in the exploded organic shape of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao, Spain 1997). Gehry situated the museum within the living and working space of the city, allowing the Puente de La Salve (one of the main thoroughfares of the city) to pierce one side of the museum. The Calle Parraguirre, another main street bisecting the city, leads directly to the main entrance of the museum. Visitors both climb and descend stairs as they enter the museum, an unusual feature in an institutional building, and are led through rotating exhibition spaces to the atrium which is lit by a graceful abstracted flower skylight. Like the New York Guggenheim, the gallery spaces are organized on multiple levels surrounding the central atrium. Connected by a series of curving walkways that are suspended from the roof, the interior spaces have been described as a ‘metaphoric city’ (Chollet, p. 97) in which the architectural elements are simultaneously the infra-structure and the inhabitants. Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) and visualizations were used heavily in the structure's design especially with shaping the titanium panels. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/15/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumlimestone; glass; titaniumen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectengineering and industrial designen_US
dc.subjectmanufacturingen_US
dc.subjectArt museumsen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectDeconstructivisten_US
dc.titleGuggenheim Museum Bilbaoen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-GF-GMB-A12en_US
dc.contributor.displayFrank Owen Gehry (American architect, born 1929)en_US


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