Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright, Day 6 #30days30spaces

This is Day 6 from our #30days30spaces series on New York City spaces in collaboration with designismymuse.  We are doing this series to celebrate the launch of the Indiegogo Great Spaces Campaign!

About the Guggenheim Museum- 

 An organic spiral that breaks free from the strict Manhattan grid, this Upper East side modern classic blends architecture and sculpture seamlessly. (read more & share at greatspacestv.com)

(all images via e-architect.co.uk)

In the Sandia Heights neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico stands an incredible house by the best architect you’ve never heard of, Bart Prince.  Bart Prince is an American architect working out of New Mexico, who flies so under the radar, he doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page.  His buildings scoff at traditional rectilinear forms and instead take their inspiration from the organic forms of life.  We’ll cover some more of Bart Prince’s fabulous architecture in the future, but for today, we’re just enthralled by his “House Beneath the Mountain.”  When conceiving the design, Prince imagined an arc with its open side facing the mountains, to fit the landscape, and nestle the house within it, a very Frank Lloyd Wright sort of attitude toward the site.  When Architectural Digest reviewed the home they said “He extends the line of the bearing walls toward the court with steel beams that form triangles that converge over the center, recalling the spokes of a teepee.”  Says Prince, “The beams define the outdoor space and bring the sky into the composition.  Their profile ties the building both to the ground and to the sky.”  Amen.  

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David Frazee designed this shelter as his graduate project at Taliesin West, the Frank Lloyd Wright school of architecture.  The project was inspired by miner’s carts and we just love its industrial feel from the Cor-ten, glass & concrete.  Despite its ruggedness, it also feels quite cozy.  Wouldn’t you love to hang out on that little patio with a fire?  It’d be great tucked in a backyard or out in the woods.

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