Frank lloyd wright unpacking the archive6/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The drawing, which is 8-feet-tall, is only half-comprised of Wright’s design, with the rest of the paper occupied by puzzling, detailed inscriptions and autobiographic information about the architect himself, Bergdoll explains. For the occasion, MoMA invited scholars and conservators to choose pieces from the archive to study closely, and to document their research and insights in short videos that reflect the show’s 12 thematic sections.įor his part, Barry Bergdoll, exhibition organizer and MoMA architecture and design curator, discusses Wright’s 1956 proposal for a mile-high skyscraper to be built in Chicago. The collections included 55,000 drawings, 300,000 letters of correspondence, 125,000 photographs, models, films, and more, according to a press release for the show. But among the show’s most unique features are a series of videos documenting the “unpacking” of MoMA’s archived by scholars. The show will feature some 400 works created between the 1890s and 1950s, and draw from both MoMA’s archives and loans from outside collections. This year the renowned modernist would have turned 15o years old, and to celebrate the occasion the Museum of Modern Art has pulled from its archives rare and never before shown works by the Wright, to be shown in its anthology-style exhibition titled, “Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive,” organized in collaboration with the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. June 8 is American architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday-you may know him as the visionary who gave New York its iconic spiraling Guggenheim Museum.
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