Editing Modern architecture (section)

===Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim Museum===
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File:Lakeland FSC Pfeiffer Chapel01.jpg|The Pfeiffer Chapel at [[Florida Southern College]] by Frank Lloyd Wright (1941–1958)
File:Building, globe, and grounds of the S.C. Johnson and son headquarters building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Racine, Wisconsin LCCN2011634906.jpg|The tower of the [[Johnson Wax Headquarters]] and Research Center (1944–50)
File:Price Tower - Bartlesville.jpg|The [[Price Tower]] in [[Bartlesville]], Oklahoma (1956)
File:NYC - Guggenheim Museum.jpg|[[Solomon Guggenheim Museum]], by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] (1946–1959)
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[[Frank Lloyd Wright]] was eighty years old in 1947; he had been present at the beginning of American modernism, and though he refused to accept that he belonged to any movement, continued to play a leading role almost to its end. One of his most original late projects was the campus of [[Florida Southern College]] in [[Lakeland, Florida]], begun in 1941 and completed in 1943. He designed nine new buildings in a style that he described as "The [[Child of the Sun]]". He wrote that he wanted the campus to "grow out of the ground and into the light, a child of the sun".

He completed several notable projects in the 1940s, including the [[Johnson Wax Headquarters]] and the [[Price Tower]] in [[Bartlesville]], Oklahoma (1956). The building is unusual that it is supported by its central core of four elevator shafts; the rest of the building is cantilevered to this core, like the branches of a tree. Wright originally planned the structure for an apartment building in New York City. That project was cancelled because of the [[Great Depression]], and he adapted the design for an oil pipeline and equipment company in Oklahoma. He wrote that in New York City his building would have been lost in a forest of tall buildings, but that in Oklahoma it stood alone. The design is asymmetrical; each side is different.

In 1943 he was commissioned by the art collector [[Solomon R. Guggenheim]] to design a museum for his collection of modern art. His design was entirely original; a bowl-shaped building with a spiral ramp inside that led museum visitors on an upward tour of the art of the 20th century. Work began in 1946 but it was not completed until 1959, the year that he died.{{Sfn|Bony|2012|page=128}}