Architect Breaks Down The Design Of 4 Iconic NYC Museums | Architectural Digest
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- From the epic halls of The Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim, New York City is home to some of the most famous museums in the world, each one looking completely different from the next. Today Michael Wyetzner of Michielli + Wyetzner Architects returns to AD for an in-depth look at how the iconic museums and art galleries of NYC developed their unique designs and became some of the city’s best landmarks.
Director: Hiatt Woods
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Alex Mechanik
Host: Michael Wyetzner
Producer: Skylar Economy
Field Producer: Alyssa Marino
Associate Producer: Chloe Leung ; Landrie Hatcher
Production Manager: Melissa Heber
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Camera Operator: Cloud Corredor
Audio Engineer: Gabe Quiroga
Production Assistant: Patrick Sargent
Post Production Supervisor: Andrew Montague
Post Production Coordinator: Holly Frew
Supervising Editor: Christina Mankellow
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
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Could you do performing arts spaces like theatres? As a theatre professional and architecture enthusiast, it would be a great concept :)
Great idea!
There is a video on this channel (not Wyetzner tho) breaking down Disney Concert Hall. I liked it.
I would love to see a video breaking down other museums in NYC (Natural History Museum, 9/11 memorial, etc)!
YESSSSSS, part two is needed!
Agreed! + a Part 3 & 4
... And preferably with Wyetzner 🙏
NMH!!!! now i wanna visit NY for these museums and central park!
The Cloisters! (It has such an interesting and unique history!)
@@jjustj145 Yes, 100% has to be Wyetner. I really think he needs his own TH-cam channel already!
The met is ridiculous. I love it. I’ve been eight or nine times and even discounting changing exhibits I keep finding new things every time I go
Many years ago I visited the Met twice - once briefly to get a sense of it, then a few days later I spent all day there!
I've probably been there 200 times and I still love it and could spend all day there.
I could watch this legend breaking down NYC architecture all day. Truly get excited seeing new ones pop up.
Would love to see some on Boston's architecture too.
I went to a Christmas concert in the Guggenheim once. Singers and musicians were spread out around the interior spiral, and the spectators filled in around them. Beautiful experience.
To be able to explore all of manhattan and all its massive museums would be such a dream come true for me
Based on my own experience you should probably plan on multiple visits to NYC to accomplish that goal.
Did that during my 1-week trip to NYC and omg it’s still not enough 😂😂😂
You’ll do it friend
WNYC, our local NPR station, has just counted 180 museums, although not all are as grand. Have fun!
Absolutely love his passion for architecture!
I would love to see a breakdown of different international airports
We love this concept and Mr. Wyetzner. Please do continue and flood us with tihs content
will, when i look at the Guggenheim museum i dont realy think about the art inside, i think about the Museum as a peace of art on itself.
I love that all the essential materials and components are labeled in the video, much easier for non-architects to understand.
Although I'm a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright's design originality (his engineering skills not so much) I've been to the Guggenheim, as well as several other NYC museums. In my opinion the Guggenheim is a very inefficient use of space in which to display art. The museum is sculpture but the actual amount of usable space in which to display art is low compared to it's footprint. And, as mentioned, not even a particularly great display environment for the art it can accommodate.
Agreed! It's cool, but not the best museum experience.
Flat paintings to be hung on a curved wall, what was Frankie smoking ? :)
Check out Waldemar Januszczak’s BBC documentary series on American art. He spends a long time on theosophy and the philosophical concepts behind the Guggenheim’s design, eg why Lloyd Wright did it the way he did (not to show art!).
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Watched Waldemar's talk on Frank L. Wright and the Guggenheim. Appears the architect and the artists were more or less on the same page through Wright may have been interested in Rosicrucianism.
So, form followed function, no conflict between the two.
This was fantastic! Please do this in Paris
Always great when there's a new NYC architecture and hishory video by Mr. Wyetzner!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
I love this video! Thanks AD!
I loved the Met part- I visited recently and it was wildly interesting.
I would LOVE to see a video on the cloisters- it was my favorite part of the entire Met system. Thank you AD and Mr. Wyetzner. :)
I love this guy, always so articulate and a great teacher
The beauty of these buildings deserve their own deep dive video tbh
Fantastic review of some of the best buildings in NYC. Many thanks for the informative video. Mr. Wyetzner is a star.
I absolutely LOVE your talks about architecture! Please keep them coming 👋
Another fab video Sir. Thank you and all others involved in making these outstanding vids.
The Frick Madison is one of my favorite, I would really like to hear You talk about it. Love your passion.Merci
Frick's collection is temporarily in the Breuer building. He just talked about it.
Do the ROM next please. Thanks.
I love your videos, I don’t know much about architecture but I do love the beautiful buildings, especially in NYC, and I love the way you teach me about them.
Could you talk about the many libraries and concert halls that Carnegie created across the country? I once thought that there was only one Carnegie Music Hall - in NYC; however, now that I’m living in Pittsburgh, I know that there are at least two! And I’m told that there are more…
This gentleman specializes in New York architecture.
Alright! NYC content, I'm in.
Agreed!!
Brilliant video as always. Loved this, and made me desire to move to NYC even more.
Thanks so much for your videos!
I'd love to see a breakdown of museums in Toronto, like the ROM and AGO.
I witnessed the expansion of the SF Moma as an art student. Would love an in depth explanation on how that was done.
This was very well explained. Thank you!
I love all the architecture tours in NYC! More please!!!
Always love these
Chicago Museums next?
It would be amazing if you could explore other fascinating museum buildings like: National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Tate Modern and National Gallery in London, Mudam in Luxembourg or Hermitage in Saint Petersburg - if you want to do outside of New York also
He’s a New York specialist. But I agree that would be interesting if they could get someone of his caliber.
i could watch these videos every single day! thank you
This was so cool!
This is a brilliant and insightful commentary! Thank you for your time and energy, coming to New York!
So interesting! I love your videos. I'd love a similar video about the museums of San Francisco.
Come to Los Angeles - LACMA under construction, the Getty off the 405 freeway and MOCA downtown.
fantastic! thanks for this great video. I love seeing the photographs of the park in its infancy.
Thank you so much for this.
Love this channel, I learn something new every time. I would love to see you review the AGO and the ROM, both great buildings with additions by visionary contemporary architects.
Do you mean the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto?
These type of videos are awesome!
Fantastic! Best buildings in NYC. Big thanks for the video
I love those architecture video !!!
I would like to see the Brooklyn Museum, the Asia Society, the NY Historical Society, the Museum of the City of NY, the Louis Armstrong Center, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
I love these
So interesting always ❤❤❤
Thank you 🙏
Maybe a break down of Parisian or Tokyo museums? The Musée d’Orsay museum is in this beautiful beaux arts building that was originally a railway station. In Tokyo, the Tokyo National Museum or the Edo-Tokyo museums for instance.
This was amazing! Broadway theaters next
I just cant wait for the next episode. They dont seem to be coming fast enough. But i do understand that quality takes time.
I love this series
thank you so much for this video!
As I am sure you know Hunt designed The Breakers in Newport as well.
Thanks for education and information!
By the way - these videos are wonderful!!
More San Francisco content please!!
The Prado, the Louvre, and the Chicago Art Institute, please!
Field Museum. Science and Industry Museum
The Tenement Museum would be really interesting! And the Cloisters!
CHICAGO please ❤
Maybe the Art Institute of Chicago?
Part 2 please!!!!
Second comment to say I love revisiting all the buildings you review to see them afresh and understand them better. AND id love to see a video about all the grounds and the buildings (greenhouses etc.) at the city’s botanical gardens or even the five zoos.
this is amazing
Amazing video!
Visiting these museums (especially the Met) is a lifelong dream of mine.
Very interesting! I would love to learn more about the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rodin museum and especially the Barnes museum and it’s relocation!!!
I love to see you breakdown the Cleveland museum of art
The Met was my favorite place when I lived in NYC.
Who was the original architect of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh? It looks very much like the Met and I'm wondering if it is the same architect since it was founded in 1895 around the same time as the 1902 Met opening.
Brooklyn Museum and the Noguchi please!
I love your videos. In this one, I especially like when you mention Frank Loyd Wright, when designing the Guggenheim, it was more about himself than it was the artwork. It would be really interesting to get your take on architects who build museums that favor their own aesthetic versus what is going into the building-the Art. Might you start with the Bilbao?
How about the deYoung Museum in SF? I know that a ton of thought went into its design. 😎
The Herzog and De Meuron de Young is a disaster. The copper exterior was supposed to turn verdigris over the years. The intent was to blend into the foliage of Golden Gate Park...except it didn't. It remained copper with only small amounts of verdigris. So, it stands out intrusively. The main court is an ungainly waste of space. With bland strips of lighting and awkward flow, what should have been the heart of the building is, instead an empty doughnut hole. Contrast this with the sublime I. M. Pei design for the East Building of the National Gallery in Washington. I could go on. It's yet another missed opportunity in a city that has few buildings of architectural merit.
He’s wonderful!
I’ve spent years in nyc and never been to any museum. I’m away now but after this video I want to go!!!!
Would love to see the architectural breakdown of Berlin’s Museum Island. Especially Neues Museum.
Mexico City's 1. Palacio de Bellas Artes, 2. Chapultepec Castle, 3. Franz Mayer Museum, and 4. Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia
Frumpy
Please do a video on Broadway theaters!
Great video
I've been to the met museum once and I really need to go back it is quite a lot to see
Funny fact me and my friend went to nyc in April and we were watching the AD video of the subways in the snack room of the Guggenheim looking out towards Central Park
Play it Loud (Met - Oct 1, 2019). I shared the Central Park at The Official Sting. I like him.
Please break down the Art Gallery of Ontario.
I love the AGO!
This was amazing, as always.
I love the Guggenheim, despite its drawbacks. But mostly, I love New York.
The American Museum of Natural History!!!!
hey Mikey,
Granted you've pointed out the MOMA facade at 7:47 and the Met's blind windows please talk more about the *window* treatments between the 19th and 20th centuries using Guatam Shah's article "Comparing Windows of FLW, and LC Mies" (2013) on the blog 'Talk About Interior Design' as a reference point.
For example, the Guggenheim's ribbon window is one long continuous spiral light to the sky.
Love these videos. I learn so much. It would be great to see The American Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian.
I'd love to hear an architectural breakdown of the Mona Museum in Hobart, Tasmania
It’s 4 blocks long. 80th St to 84th St.
Actually, Wyetzner is correct.
The city granted the *land* between the 79th and 85th street transverse roads of Central Park. Measured on a map that's *five blocks* or about 1/4 of a mile long, a mile being twenty blocks on the Manhattan grid.
The *building* length on its east facade Fifth Avenue is four blocks in length.
So, again, Wyetzner is correct since being an architect (for thirty five years :) he's thinking in terms of a site plan and it's boundary lines. The land not the facade.
Incredible buildings! Thanks for the video. I'm torn though. I was feeling that nothing can beat Paris before I started ... However, it's clear. NYC gives it a worthy attempt for sure! Looking forward to return.
Hello! I love this channel! Can you please do an episode on Guastavino?
This is an awesome video about New York museums, New Yorkers like their art. I like the Metropolitain Museum, the museum of modern art and the Whitney museum..
Great video, I could listen to Wyetzner talk about architecture for hours. Maybe he could do something on Berlin? The Museum Island with its different museums, Libeskind's Jewish Museum, such an amazing piece of didactic architecture!
Please come to Philadelphia! I would love to see a similar compare/contrast between the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Barnes Foundation museum.
After all of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's buildings and extensions it's front street facade still has stone blocks as placeholders for proposed statues on top of the twin columns.
I really like the building the New Museum is in.
It would be nice to compare other museums on Museum Mile or AMNH including the new Gilder Center, which in itself has a unique design
I'd love to know more about museums in other parts of the US and other parts of the world.
I enjoyed your videos! Just a quick question what kind of marker or pen do you used in this video? I will like to get some of those! Thanks!!
Would you be able to talk about the Hispanic Society Museum and its unique history? Thank you.