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100 Urban Trends: Temporary Architecture
In this ongoing series based around the Lab’s 100 Urban Trends, our writers are focusing on trends that are meaningful to them, sharing anecdotes, opinions, and real-world illustrations of urban issues...
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Friday Links: Festive Streets in Copenhagen, Wildlife Crossings around the...
In Copenhagen, an annual festival has people dancing in the streets—just one more example of public space being used to improve urban life.
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Friday Links: New York’s Beautiful Subway Architecture, Los Angeles in One...
How do you sum up Los Angeles in one minute? This video does it with dramatic sunsets, sprawling skylines—and a great bass line.
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100 Urban Trends: Looking Back
Today, we say farewell to our 100 Urban Trends series—and hello to the Lab's upcoming exhibition.
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Participatory City: A Conversation with Curator Maria Nicanor about the BMW...
Today, as Participatory City opens at the Guggenheim in New York, curator Maria Nicanor reflects on the exhibition and how it conveys the Lab's approach to "conversation and participation."
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Living Architecture in New York
Before Frank Lloyd Wright's building for the Guggenheim rose at 1071 Fifth Avenue, the architect staged an exhibition of his work—and built a modest, one-story home—in the same spot.
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“New York’s Strangest Building”: A 1945 Introduction to the Guggenheim
A 1940s article in LIFE shared details and thoughts on Frank Lloyd Wright's museum design.
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Ten Stunning Architectural Views from the Guggenheim’s Chief Photographer
David Heald has been creating gorgeous images of the Guggenheim’s buildings in New York, Bilbao, and Venice for more than 30 years. Here, he shares the stories behind some of his favorite photographs.
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Endings and Beginnings
BMW Guggenheim Lab curator Maria Nicanor shares concluding thoughts on the Lab project, its achievements, and how its experience will affect the Guggenheim's architecture and urbanism programming in...
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A Biography of a Building: The Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts
Characterizing the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts as embodying a particular relationship between city and nation, Pamela Corey explores how the building’s architecture and organization give an...
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An Urban Planner’s Guide to Seven Remarkable Things about Helsinki
Helsinki's Director of City Planning—a member of the jury for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition—shares some of his favorite aspects of his hometown.
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Shine On: The History and Vision behind the Guggenheim’s Iconic Skylight
An inside look at the architecture of the Guggenheim Museum's instantly recognizable "oculus"—and why natural light mattered so much to Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum for “Archtober”
In honor of "Archtober"—a month dedicated to celebrating New York City's built environment—we’re revisiting a video about our own New York architectural masterpiece, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim.
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Go “Guggathon”! How We Collaboratively Edited Architecture Pages on Wikipedia
A recent event at the Guggenheim Museum brought together teachers, architectural students, architects, members of the media, and staff from leading New York City museums to edit architecture-related...
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Thoughts on Designing—and Naming—the Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright knew his design for the Guggenheim Museum was pushing architectural boundaries. Through his letters, we can follow his passionate argument for his genre-bending creation.
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Dispatch: Panama
Pablo Léon de la Barra's seventh report from his research travel across Latin America documents visits made by the Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America, to key sites in Panama. Here at the...
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Inspiration for the Guggenheim’s Terrazzo Floor
Frank Lloyd Wright's choice of floor material for the Guggenheim Museum building was based on a specific experience in a surprising location.
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How One Simple Material Shaped Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim
A letter from Frank Lloyd Wright to his general contractor for the Guggenheim illustrates the vital importance of one building material: concrete.
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Open Architecture! Five Points on Why We Are Opening the Guggenheim Helsinki...
Some thoughts on why the Guggenheim has opened the full data set of entries to the Guggenheim Helsinki design competition.
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Art and the Arab Citizen: Raising Public Consciousness through the Arts
Salwa Mikdadi’s historically informed account of contemporary art in the Arab world reveals how the past decade has seen new forms of creative practice emerge, contributing to the political and social...
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