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Guggenheim Museum Rotunda and the Rotunda at Symphony Center Cultural institutions occupy buildings, and so often the most interesting stories about those institutions and their buildings really are stories about the humans behind them. This smacks too much of gossip. So I hope in these essays to minimize such, and focus on design. Structure. But gossip sometimes is the story. Consider the Guggenheim museum The Guggenheim museum in New York City: lotsa juicy gossip, but also some significant architecture. It started out as the Mueum of Non-Objective Painting. Founded by painter Hilla Rebay and collector Solomon Guggenheim, it intended to exhibit only a fixed (and somewhat peculiar) collection that Rebay was building with Guggenheim's money. Once the envisioned collection was completed, it would be closed, with no additions or withdrawls. The founding idea was that non-objective painting had some mystical or psychological significance, perhaps reflecting some aspect of a collective...