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Article: Getty v. Guggenheim: a paradigm apart.(comparisons of two museums)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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The 13 years between the time the Getty's architect-selection committee chose Richard Meier and the Getty Center's opening last December [see A.i.A., May '98] was a period of fundamental questioning and change in architecture. Not only did the whole edifice of architectural postmodernism collapse, but also unprecedented designs by such architects as Frank Gehry, Coop Himmelblau, Peter Eisenman and Zaha Hadid required, as Philip Johnson said, new eyes to see. Facilitated by the fast, affordable computers of the 1990s, these investigations culminated in -- among other buildings -- Gehry's outpost for the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain, which opened just two months before the ...
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