Word: wrightian
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When the trustees decided a decade ago that they could not manage without considerable additional space, they turned to Charles Gwathmey and Robert Siegel, architects whose work (sleek, handsome, rather restrained) is not exactly Wrightian. On the 35-ft. sliver of land behind Wright's museum, Gwathmey Siegel would build the Guggenheim an addition. Ever since, the firm has been accused by a slightly hysterical mandarin consensus of desecrating the Guggenheim, of wanting to make a toothpick from a piece of the True Cross; the first design, a huge tower that brazenly cantilevered a pale green box out over Wright...
...flaccid institutional moderne of the original buildings designed by William Pereira in the early '60s. Then the deco-ish hulk of stripes and glass blocks shoved in front of it by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in 1986. And now the only major public building by America's maestro of post-Wrightian, off-the-wall kitsch, Bruce Goff...
...later. The unicorn offered Neutra a job at his Taliesin, Wis. workstead. The association did much to shape Neutra's style, although, as Drexler says in the exhibition catalogue, Neutra was both praised and blamed for cleaning up Wright's complications. While Mies and the others translated Wrightian picturesque into the language of abstract painting, Neutra advanced along the simple lines of Japanese architecture, which Wright also admired...
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