ABSTRACT
The inverse conical structure and the novelty, at that time, of a downward spiral path around an ample interior space, made the Guggenheim Museum (GG) in New York an icon in the history of architecture. In turn, the building immortalised this path, defined by a ramp that became the main protagonist of the space. The representation of the movement that the ramp has inside the GG of NY produced a complementary imagination to its spatial function in the museum. Given its expressiveness, from its construction to the present time, the ramp has been the scene for several creations along its helically ascension and descension path. Its image was chosen to represent NY in Woody Allen’s film Manhattan and its space has been used in several other films: from chasing extraterrestrials to romantic encounters and espionage meetings; it has witnessed its destruction in the midst of a shooting, as well as the sliding fun of six penguins and the sad madness of Ophelia in a version of Hamlet. Frank Lloyd Wright’s (FLW) conception of this ramp articulates the concepts of the PHI 2019 book: Intelligence, Creativity, and Fantasy. They correspond to a process relevant in architecture, which we intend to demonstrate, starting from intelligent and creative fiction at the beginning of a project to the fiction generated by its construction.
