While studying the Guggenheim, I learned that every part of the building was built with curves. In fact, the only straight part of the museum is the floor. After learning this, I studied the curves throughout the building. The curves were never very drastic, but they were obviously not straight. In fact, the curves we so multiplied and gentle that, I think, if you put a straight line in there, it would seem curved; an optical illusion. There were curved arches, walkways, walls and art work, like that of Richard Serra. Richard Serra created multiple torque de lipses, an oval on the floor and an oval on the ceiling rotated to the one on the floor. With his curves, Serra wanted the people to experience two typed of curved spaces, interior and exterior. The interior some how alters time to your own personal experience, body and movement. As you walk through, you become the experience, there is no prescribed way of viewing.
I think that at least half the people who didn't like the Guggenheim before, will admit to how amazing it is after seeing it in person. It is an incredible building where a picture does not do it justice.
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