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Guggenheim Museum

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The Guggenheim Museum in New York is a museum housing artwork from the collection of the Guggenheim Foundation. The collection includes paintings from old masters of various styles, but the most valuable part of the collection is the building itself. The building for the Guggenheim Museum in New York was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It took him 16 years (1943-1959) to complete the design of this building (including 700 sketches and six sets of working drawings), and it was his last major work. The museum opened in 1959, six months after the death of Mr. Wright.

I visited the Guggenheim Museum with my cousin while doing walks towards Central Park from my brother’s apartment in Upper East Side of Manhattan several years ago. We went into the museum’s lobby and took some photos there, but ended up not spending the time to see the artwork because it was a little pricey to purchase the tickets for the museum, especially when we were more interested in the architecture than checking out the art. But we did get some great photos of the building from many different angles.

The photo below was taken outside the museum. I thought it provided an interesting perspective to see the distinctive cone part of the building.

Guggenheim Museum

Kentuck Knob

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In the Laurel Highlands, not far from Fallingwater, there is another home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that architecture enthusiasts should check out. Kentuck Knob in Chalk Hill, PA, was designed by Mr. Wright as a home for another area family. Unlike Fallingwater which was designed to be a vacation home for a wealthy family, Kentuck Knob is smaller in size and was designed to be a residence for a small family. I think the house felt more intimate and cozy inside. Like Fallingwater, it is another good example of organic architecture, where the building was designed to exist in harmony with the nature surround it. One part of Kentuck Knob was built into a hill side, so if you view the home from one perspective (as seen in the photo below), it looked like the home is integrated into the surrounding nature. If you plan to come to the area to visit Fallingwater, you should also make time to visit Kentuck Knob. It is definitely worth visiting.

Kentuck Knob

Fallingwater

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In the next few days, I’ll be posting blog entries highlighting some photo sets in my flickr collection taken in autumn.

Given that it’s fall time now, I thought it’s appropriate to start with a set of photos taken in the fall several years ago at a place called Fallingwater. Fallingwater is a famous architecture masterpiece in Mill Run, PA. It’s a home on top of a waterfall designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. This place is among my favorite places to visit — not only because it’s very scenic around there, but also because the home has many interesting features that highlight Mr. Wright’s forward thinking in the world or architecture. This particular photo set was taken during a visit in late October 2006. It was a little after the peak foliage time for the year, and I went during the weekday to avoid the weekend crowd typically encountered during the high season. The result is a set of photos of the home without too many visitors in it, so the house itself really shines as the subject. Since I posted the photos on flickr, somehow the photos in this set were among the most popular photos in the photostream. The photo below has the distinction to be the most viewed photo to date in my flickr collection.

Fallingwater, Mill Run, PA