Guggenheim Museum Bilbao - Research assignment

Name <Tab/>Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Architect <Tab/>Frank O.Gehry Date <Tab/>Groundbreaking: 22nd October 1993 <Tab/>Public Opening Style Of Architecture <Tab/>The Guggenheim Museum is a post-modernist piece of avant-garde architecture. It is difficult to categorise because of its unusual and unique shape. Some people would even classify it as a sculpture. Height &…

…to support a 130x25m room. O.Gehry also used computers to help him design the museum. If it had not been for a computer program that was recently designed, the project would not have stayed within construction budget. Chapter 5 - Bibliography 1. Van Bruggen, Coosje, Frank O.Gehry: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997 2. Curtis, William J. R., Modern Architecture Since 1900, Phaidon Press Inc., 1996 3. http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, History, 1998