A site from Caltech about six of Gehry's buildings . The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a collection of interconnected blocks housing galleries, an auditorium, a restaurant, a museum store and administrative offices. These buildings have as their central focus a single architectural composition. With its towering roof, which is reminiscent of a metallic flower, the museum will enliven the riverfront and serve as a spectacular gateway to the city. The wall is 10.1 feet high at its center.
Form ever follows function.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods and men, to put man into possession of his own earth. Quoted by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland, ed. In the Realm of Ideas . Frank Lloyd Wright. Quoted by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Gerald Nordland, ed.