Jaroslav j. polivka y el guggenheim museum de New York

Abstract

The Guggenheim Museum is a clear example of architecture influenced byits structure. The architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright feeds on a special merger with the structure, sometimes difficult to differentiate from other elements. This led Wright to new approaches, such as reinforced concrete plates, implying a greater degree of technical complexity. Jaroslav Joseph Polivka provided both specific knowledge about the material and methods of analysis, as a special sensitivity regarding the formal role of structure in architecture. In this sense, the spiral ramp of the museum exceeded the reasonable limits of this type in his time and Polivka had to supplement the available theoretical with essays to substantiate the proposed method, all this focused on the materialization of a continuous space devised by Wright (1).