Showing posts with label Personal Blog Post. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal Blog Post. Show all posts
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
NYC's Guggenheim celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1943–59. Perspective, 1943. Ink and watercolor on art paper, 50.8 x 61.0 cm. Lent by Daniel Wolf and Mathew Wolf in memory of Diane R. Wolf.
FLLW FDN 4305.749 © 2009 The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona
May 15–August 23, 2009
Fifty years after the realization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned design, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. On view from May 15 through August 23, 2009, the 50th anniversary exhibition brings together sixty-four projects designed by one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, including privately commissioned residences, civic and government buildings, religious and performance spaces, as well as unrealized urban mega-structures. Presented on the spiral ramps of Wright’s museum through a range of mediums—including more than 200 original Frank Lloyd Wright drawings, many of which are on view to the public for the first time, as well as newly commissioned models and digital animations—Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward illuminates Wright’s pioneering concepts of space and reveals the architect’s continuing relevance to contemporary design.
During his seventy-two-year career, Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), who died just six months before the opening of the Guggenheim, worked independently from any single style and developed a new sense of architecture in which form and function were inseparable. Known for his inventiveness and the diversity of his work, Wright is celebrated for the awe-inspiring beauty and tranquility of his designs. Whether creating a private home, workplace, religious edifice, or cultural attraction, Wright sought to unite people, buildings, and nature in physical and spiritual harmony. To realize such a union in material form, Wright created environments of simplicity and repose through carefully composed plans and elevations based on consistent, geometric grammars.
In his earliest designs, such as the Larkin Company Administration Building (Buffalo, New York, 1902–6) and Unity Temple (Oak Park, Illinois, 1905), Wright carefully deconstructed the boxlike environment of his European contemporaries by opening up corners and using walls merely as screens to enclose tranquil interior spaces. While the aesthetic strength of Wright’s work has invited people to revisit his idiom, it is the ambition of Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward to celebrate the basic idea behind his architecture—the sense of freedom in interior space—and inspire visitors to see the potential that architecture can carry for the here and now and for the future.
Highlights of Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward include newly created three-dimensional scale models that examine the internal mechanics of functional space in relation to exterior form in a variety of Wright’s projects. Among these are an exploded version of the Herbert Jacobs House (Madison, Wisconsin, 1937); a mirrored model for Unity Temple; and a sectional model of Beth Sholom Synagogue (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1953). Large-scale models of unrealized urban projects, including his Plan for Greater Baghdad (1957), the Crystal City for Washington, D.C. (1940), and the Pittsburgh Point Civic Center (1947), provide insight into Wright’s visions for the landscapes of the city. In addition, special animations offer viewers the opportunity to experience an interpretation of nine of Wright’s unbuilt or demolished projects as well as his own Taliesin and Taliesin West.
The exhibition is curated by Thomas Krens, Senior Advisor of International Affairs for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; David van der Leer, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design; and Maria Nicanor, Curatorial Assistant, both for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in collaboration with Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives; Margo Stipe, Curator and Registrar of Collections of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives; and Oskar Muñoz, Assistant Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. Mina Marefat, an architect and Wright scholar, has served as Curatorial Consultant for the Baghdad module of the exhibition.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Belated Happy St. Patricks Day !
Eight Things You Should Do on St. Patricks Day
1. Wear Green "BOSTON CELTICS STYLE"
2. Drink lots of Guinness and or/ Irish Coffee
3. Listen to Irish Music: Enya,Loreena Mckenna,The Chieftains, and The Irish Tenors
4. Watch Irish Movies: The Departed, Gangs of New York, Once, and River Dance
5. Watch a St. Patricks Day Parade
6. Tune into QVC or PBS "Everything Irish" Music, Jewelry etc....
7. Eat a lot of Soda Bread, Corn beef and Cabbage
8. Hangout at a Bar w/friends and family
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Oscar Frenzy 2009
I woke up late today what a pure joy to sleep in for once god knows how much I need my sleep unfortunately I had to wakeup and go to work from 12pm to 6pm but that's okey, I later rushed home to watch the Barbara Walters special she chose some unique people to interview this year: The Jonas Brothers, Mickey Roarke, Hugh Jackman, and Ann H. I thought the whole presentation of the Oscars was just amazing and yes IM refering to Hugh Jackman he was just increadible on every level. I was thrilled when Kate W. won best actress that just made my night I've loved her since she appeared in Titanic.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Mark Wahlberg Backstage "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE"
found this on nbc.com "SNL" I thought the skit was pretty funny but you have to like the cast of SNL to get the humor which Mark Wahlberg was a guest on the show and did an awsome job " say hello to your mother for me" was the funniest line of the night each person he ineracted with he ended the conversation by saying that specific line.
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