Saunders Architecture for "Contemplating the Void"By, Roberta Smith, New York Times
"The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is capping the 50th birthday festivities for its Frank Lloyd Wright building with some navel gazing. Still, there are worse navels to consider. Wright’s spiral rotunda, in fact, could be thought of as the greatest belly button in modern architecture: an innie and an outie all in one.
The rotunda is the inspiration for a frolicking, mostly feel-good show called “Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum,” for which more than 200 artists, architects and designers were invited to redesign or repurpose the space."
Read the rest of the article here: Contemplating the Void
See what heavy hitters such as Zaha Hadid and Anish Kapoor imagined for the void a.k.a. the Guggenheim's belly button here: The Void
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