Editing Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (section)

=== Impact and retrospective commentary ===
In later years, the building became widely praised.<ref>[http://www.theartstory.org/museum-guggenheim.htm "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum"], The Art Story Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2012.</ref>{{sfn|Levine|1996|p=362}} Marcus Whiffen and Frederick Koeper wrote: "The dynamic interior of the Guggenheim is, for some, too competitive for the display of art, but no one disputes that it is one of the memorable spaces in all of architecture."<ref name=NPS42>{{harvnb|ps=.|National Park Service|2005|p=42}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Whiffen |first1=Marcus |last2=Koeper |first2=Frederick |title=American architecture, 1607–1976 |publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul |publication-place=London |date=1981 |isbn=0-7100-0813-9 |oclc=12089229 |page=369 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanarchitec0000whif_t3y6}}</ref> Paul Goldberger said in 2009: "I think the legacy of this building is in the message that architecture does not have to lie down and play dead in front of art."<ref>{{cite web |date=August 5, 2009 |title=Guggenheim Museum: The Spiral that Broke All the Rules |url=https://www.npr.org/2009/08/05/130274408/guggenheim-museum-the-spiral-that-broke-all-the-rules |access-date=October 6, 2022 |website=NPR.org}}</ref> According to [[Herbert Muschamp]], the Guggenheim was "one of New York's most distinguished landmarks", as well as Wright's best-known design.<ref name=NPS44>{{harvnb|ps=.|National Park Service|2005|p=44}}</ref><ref name=Muschamp1985>{{cite book |last=Muschamp |first=Herbert |title=Man about Town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City |publisher=MIT Press |series=Mit Press |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-262-63100-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bs8HHQAACAAJ |page=5}}</ref> The [[American Institute of Architects]] gave a [[Twenty-five Year Award]] to the Guggenheim in 1986, describing the museum's building as "an architectural landmark and a monument to Wright's unique vision".<ref name=NYCL12/><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://usmodernist.org/PA/PA-1986-05.pdf |title=Update on the Guggenheim |first=Doralice D. |last=Boles |date=Jun 1986 |magazine=Progressive Architecture |volume=67 |page=34}}</ref>

[[Image:FrankLloydWright1966USstamp.jpg|thumb|alt=2 cent postage stamp featuring a black and white illustration with bust of Wright in the foreground and the museum in the background.|2 cent U.S. postage stamp honoring Wright, with the Guggenheim in the background (1966)]]
Several writers described the Guggenheim as representing Wright's tendency toward organic architecture.<ref>{{harvnb|ps=.|National Park Service|2005|pp=42–43}}</ref> According to William J. R. Curtis, the building was "the apotheosis of Wright's organic philosophy".<ref name=NPS42/><ref>{{cite book |last=Curtis |first=William J. R. |title=Modern Architecture Since 1900 |publisher=Phaidon |publication-place=Oxford |date=1987 |isbn=0-7148-2482-8 |oclc=15657753 |page=270 |url=https://archive.org/details/modernarchitectu0000curt}}</ref> Peter Blake commented that the Guggenheim was Wright's "only completed work of uncompromising plasticity and continuity",<ref name=NPS43>{{harvnb|ps=.|National Park Service|2005|p=43}}</ref><ref name=Blake1996>{{cite book |last=Blake |first=Peter |title=The Master Builders: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright |publisher=Norton |series=Norton library |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-393-31504-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4roPWSaQSOQC |page=400}}</ref> a claim with which Wright's biographer Robert C. Twombly agreed.<ref name=NPS43/><ref name=Twombly1991>{{cite book |last=Twombly |first=Robert C. |title=Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture |publisher=Wiley |series=A Wiley-Interscience publication |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-471-85797-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KSA1HTTU-eMC |page=316}}</ref> Critics came to regard the Guggenheim as the best work of Wright's later career,<ref>{{cite book |last=Frampton |first=Kenneth |title=Modern Architecture: A Critical History |publisher=Thames and Hudson |series=World of art library |year=1985 |isbn=978-0-500-20201-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2MrnwEACAAJ |page=190}}</ref> as well as a culmination of the helical shapes that Wright had used in his designs since 1925.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Magnago Lampugnani |first1=Vittorio |last2=Bergdoll |first2=Barry |last3=Hatje |first3=Gerd |last4=Pehnt |first4=Wolfgang |title=Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture |publisher=N.N. Abrams |publication-place=New York |date=1986 |isbn=0-8109-0860-3 |oclc=11316465 |page=368}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Roth |first=Leland M. |title=A Concise History of American Architecture |publisher=Harper & Row |series=Icon editions |year=1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDnFzgEACAAJ |page=294}}</ref> [[Spiro Kostof]] called the museum "a gift of pure architecture",<ref name=NPS43/><ref>{{cite book |last=Kostof |first=Spiro |title=A History of Architecture |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-19-508378-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYtUAAAAMAAJ |page=740}}</ref> and [[Edgar Kaufmann Jr.]] said the building was "one of the irrefutably grand achievements of modern architecture".<ref name=NPS43/><ref>{{cite book |last=Kaufmann |first=Edgar Jr. |chapter=Frank Lloyd Wright |editor-last=Placzek |editor-first=Adolf K. |title=Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects |publisher=Free Press |publication-place=New York |date=1982 |isbn=0-02-925000-5 |oclc=8763713 |page=}}</ref>

The museum building inspired other architects' designs.<ref name=Storrer401/><ref name=NYCL12/> Several similar buildings were developed in the 1960s, although they generally used less concrete than the Guggenheim did.<ref name=NYCL12/> Deborah Solomon of ''[[The New York Times Magazine]]'' wrote in 2002 that the Guggenheim inspired the phenomenon of "the museum that is just walls", wherein museums competed for the best-designed buildings.<ref name="nyt-2002-06-30">{{Cite news |last=Solomon |first=Deborah |date=June 30, 2002 |title=Is The Go-Go Guggenheim Going, Going ... |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/magazine/is-the-go-go-guggenheim-going-going.html |access-date=October 6, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The building was also depicted in a two-cent postage stamp issued in Wright's honor in 1966.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://usmodernist.org/AJ/AJ-1966-06.pdf |title=The Guggenheim Backs Up Frank Lloyd Wright |volume=45 |date=June 1966 |magazine=Journal of the American Institute of Architects |page=36}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1990|ps=.|pp=11–12}}</ref> The [[American Institute of Architects]]' 2007 survey ''[[ America's Favorite Architecture|List of America's Favorite Architecture]]'' ranked the Guggenheim Museum among the top 150 buildings in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |website=FavoriteArchitecture.org |publisher=AIA |url=http://favoritearchitecture.org/afa150.php |title=List of America's Favorite Architecture |year=2007 |access-date=September 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510113118/http://favoritearchitecture.org/afa150.php |archive-date=May 10, 2011}}</ref><ref name="nyt-2007-05-27">{{Cite news |last=Kugel |first=Seth |date=May 27, 2007 |title=The List: 33 Architectural Favorites in New York |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/travel/27Bweekend.html |access-date=January 20, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120163218/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/travel/27Bweekend.html |url-status=live}}</ref>