Inside, the architecture features skylights, wide hallways, ample public spaces and a noticeable lack of walls.
This is at least partly thanks to its edgy inside-out architecture (the building is contained inside a cage of white-painted steel struts) and its pride-of-place setting on the rediscovered waterfront.
The famously troublesome, inside-out architecture of the Guggenheim, with its six-story cantilevered gallery and soaring, 110-foot interior void, does present safety concerns, particularly since the view across the rotunda can be as compelling as the art itself.
"Architecture Inside Out," by Karen A. Franck and R. Bianca Lepori John Wileyy & Sons, $49.95), is for those who believe that architecture can be meatier and livelier, more human, less machine-made.
He took architecture inside, too.
Rather they turned modern architecture inside out.
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers turned the museum's architecture inside out, literally and metaphorically.
If we are to protect great architecture — inside and out — from all eras, we need more genuine stewards like Mr. Rubin.
Called a "gentle manifesto" by its authors, ARCHITECTURE INSIDE OUT (Wiley, paper, $49.95), seeks for architecture to appeal to all the senses, not just the visual.
This dreamlike sensation was reinforced by the fact that there was nothing to see inside beyond the architecture itself, save for a single sculpture of a female nude - Alba, or Dawn, by the German artist George Kolbe - and the architect's new leather and chrome steel Barcelona chairs.
